USA Africa Dialogue Series - africa as a country

pretty great blog post here:

Another case of: Please Stop This  Now. After Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 campaign to stop Joseph Kony’s violence waned and flamed out, finally a new hero has arrived to save us from the warlord. Journalist, author of the book The World’s Most Dangerous Places and rugged man’s man, Robert Pelton, has taken it upon himself to find Kony … with your (financial) support. Pelton is currently raising money on a crowd-sourcing platform for “Dangerous Magazine,” a show  (and magazine) that seeks to engage the audience by taking you to where the problems are—and deliver solutions! And Pelton will make it entertaining, wandering in dangerous places on simple barges through picturesque rivers framed by jungle ferns, as the promotional video, with its stereotypes of the Third World, demonstrates.

The concept is as simple as ordering take-out: pick your adventure from the convenience of your home by giving money and telling Pelton where to go and what to do, and Pelton and his team will “deliver the product.” To demonstrate what Pelton and his team are able to accomplish, their first mission is finding a man that US Special Forces and others have failed to locate.
read the rest at http://africasacountry.com/the-bullshitfiles-kony-expedition/#respond

[clearly this guy will solve all the problems of  boko haram....let's just put him on the case...]
ken

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