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Article: Africa's return to our planet
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 16, 1994
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WHEN British aid agencies launched an appeal for Rwanda a month
ago it seemed likely that they would be embarrassed by the result.
Once again Africans were killing each other in large numbers and
with singular brutality for no comprehensible reason. Many
predicted that people would not be induced to write out another
cheque for another man-made disaster in Africa, and that the
horrific piles of bodies in Rwanda would lead to the further
marginalisation of the continent.
After Somalia, Angola and Mozambique, Rwanda seemed to confirm
the worst fears of the most cynical Afro-pessimists. And no one
could argue that events were hyped by the media. Cameramen I met
there had been told by their ...