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In General, Talking About Human Rights Tends To Be Very Persuasive For People Who Care About Human Rights.

There Seems To Be This Sense Among Even Well-meaning Americans That Africa Is This Black Hole Of Murder And Mutilation That Can Never Be Fixed, No Matter What Aid Is Brought In.

You Could Perhaps Better Tell The Story Of A Place By Writing Of A Tiny Village As A Sort Of Prism Into The Bigger Issues The Culture Was Facing. It Struck Me As A Better Way To Learn About A Place, Or At Least A Different Way, Than Just Going To Interview The President. So I Have Often Tried To Tell The Story Of A Place Through People There. But I'm Just Amazed.

I Try To Be Careful About Wording. One Of The Things I've Tried To Combat In My Blog Is The Notion That Journalists Are Arrogant And Unconcerned With The Readership.

All Of A Sudden Their Husband's Dead And Maybe A Child Is Dead And They Have Absolutely Nothing - And They're Heading Through The Desert At Night.