Terrific Article At BNT Today
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Yo, a quick headsup - Sarah Stuteville's article "Why We Still Need To Write About African Poverty" is one of the best articles I've ever seen at BraveNewTraveler. Check out this quote: "The other day, as I stood in a cloudburst on a muddy hill above the train tracks that cut through Kibera and looked out on a landscape of rusted tin roofs, I couldn’t shake the rising fear that I was looking into the future. I felt beyond a shadow that I was looking at the makings of the permanent underclass required to support the polarized global economy we are shaping today." The article, published this morning, is already provoking an excellent discussion. Great work, Sarah. |
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Agreed, Tim. Sarah's piece is fantastic and important, and as I wrote over at BNT, her observations are relevant to other parts of the world, too.
When I was in Senegal, a lot of people brought up the focus on dysfunction and poverty in Africa in the Western media to me with a lot of dissatisfaction. They were really concerned with how the world saw them, but really felt those topics overshadowed everything else people knew and learned about their part of the world.
Just putting that out there.