CharleyS

It is annoying, but I think I understand the point.

If nothing else, Africa the continent is so poorly represented in the media.

I work for an NGO. I suppose some of my colleagues are guilty of some of this type of writing.

Then again, how much does the world get to hear - or the US media audience anyway - about the ongoing war and genocide in DR Congo? If it weren't for Hotel Rwanda, I'm not sure I'd even know a million people were brutally murdered there. Now I've been to Kigali, visited the memorial, and spent time in South Kivu in the DRC.

I hope what Binyavanga is doing is poking a little fun.

This white NGO expat man for one definitely feels like he's found his calling when it comes to victims and refugees of conflict throughout the African continent.

Maybe I'm just a sap.