Saturday, December 31, 2011

USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Economist:: Africa's reputation—deserved or not: Continental bias?

"THE admirable Sudanese telecoms billionaire, Mo Ibrahim, was the guest-editor of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning. Cassandra did not catch all of the programme (which, for non-Beeb listeners, concentrates on the politics and current affairs of the moment), but what caught my attention was Mr Ibrahim's assertion that the western media—he included the supposedly impartial BBC and CNN—are biased in their reporting of Africa. Too often, he argued, the western media fail to report the good stories that abound in the continent; instead, they concentrate on the "four or five" places that give Africa such a bad name to the outside world."

"Perhaps he has a point."

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- Ikhide

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