ext_181848 ([identity profile] silverjackal.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] danalwyn 2010-06-12 03:54 pm (UTC)

You know, I didn't even think of Botswana. Not that it's not an amazing place, but that it's comparatively small, and the infrastructure... well, Tanzania has considerably more, but still not enough.

here's a complete ignorance of that fact that, in some places, Africa seems to be working

Well, one never hears about those places on the news here because there is no war/famine/ etc. so of course it's like it doesn't exist. Even the way people talk about the place: it's *Africa*, a monolithic whole. Never mind that it's an enormous continent, full of very different countries. Tanzania in no way resembles Equatorial Guinea, but that's a distinction that is lost in the media representations.

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