Haidhuru

Paris in Rwanda
So you must have heard that this Paris is seeking redemption in Rwanda- (not to be confused with this Paris). I’m increasingly incensed at how Africa (undifferentiated, monolithic, homogeneous Africa) is this shopping basket that people can use to showcase their good works. Envision celebrity browsing through this year’s glossy (all new materials) catalogue. “So this season, disaster and disease is in. Hmmm… I can go with Guinea Worm- but that’s like so unattractive. We could do famine, but those hungry people are on dit. Doesn’t starvation victim # 455 look like so totally hot?” It also takes a certain kind of person to look at the deaths of 800,000 people and go “Ahhhhhh! Now that’s the backdrop for the atonement of my drunken driving woes”.

C’est pathétique.
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