George Bush, #Nicholas_Kristof and the Hunger Games
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They’re ba-a-a-ack! Those wonderful white men in their (f)lying machines, the Good White Men who brought us the most recent instantiation of “Africa is a country” have returned. As you know, Africa Is a Country is “the blog that’s not about famine, Bono, or Barack Obama.” But we’re all over George W. Bush and Nicholas D. Kristof when [...]
Nothing about discussions and actions concerning sustainable agriculture, in Mali or elsewhere on the continent. Nothing about how small hold farmers, mostly women, used to keep whole regions alive and relatively healthy until they were run out of field and farmhouse by mega-agro-corporations, encouraged and sponsored by the policies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Tony Blair. Nothing about the widespread devastation of public services thanks to policies emerging from Washington, DC, New York, London, and beyond. Basically, nothing about “Africa”, but a whole lot about, you guessed it, Barack Obama, Bono, and famine.