I just finished the book "Season of Blood - A Rwandan Journey" by Fergal Keane, an Irish journalist. This is his account of travels in Rwanda in 1994 during the genocide. It was a deeply moving book and often had to pause reading due to the tears evoked.
Here are some quotes from the book:
How people view Africa:
We are fed a diet of starving children, of stacked corpses and battalions of refugees, and in the end we find ourselves despising the continent because it haunts and shames us.
When people ask why we should care about Africa:
that we should care because we belong to the same brotherhood of man as the citizens of seemingly remote African countries. Regarding the genocide:
For me, however, the conclusion is unavoidable: genocidal killing in Africa diminishes all of us. Don't forget about Africa.
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This reminds me of a movie preview I saw yesterday. I think the movie was called Last King of Scotland. It was about a scottish doctor who went to Uganda and ended up as the personal physician to the dictator at that time (1970's?)
Check it out. It looks really, really, REALLY good.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455590/
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