Ethan Zuckerman: Unpacking Kony 2012 (My heart’s in Accra)
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? Or to propose only the simplest of solutions?
Matthew Parris: As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God
Interesting, though I do not totally agree. (Is Christianity not itself a tribe? An ideological one, at least, if not geographically contiguous.) There is the same food for thought here that I've been chewing on for years... it is a conundrum I cannot reconcile.