++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
Look, you can't expect me to care about the local differences aight? Just like Americans don't know the difference between Denmark and Holland because they call it "Europe", Europeans don't know the difference between Sierra Leone and ... take your pick ... Zimbabwe.
It's all Africa. And all we see of Africa on our television sets is murder or hunger. Have fun over there but I won't be joining ya any time soon.
Yes, except when the news comes from South Africa. Sad, but like I have pointed out earlier, the media...
FACT: South Africa has about the highest number of rape cases in the world.
FACT: Jo'burg has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
FACT: South Africa (Cape Town and Bloemfontein) are rated as two of the nicest places to live in on the planet.
FACT: Nigerians are the happiest people on the planet.
Africa has its good, bad and ugly, but people like CNN and BBC just love focusing on the bad. While people like Bob Geldoff just love wringing their hands at the ugly so they can have shows to organise.