Must a revolution be photographed and filmed to succeed?
“The problem is that most American media compulsively ignore everything south of the Sahara and north of Johannesburg. A demonstration has to be filmed, photographed, streamed live into the offices of foreign leaders to achieve everything Egypt’s achieved.” I came across this article in Al Jazeera a few days ago and it really got me thinking. It proposes that protests across sub-Saharan Africa partly spurred by the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and across the Middle East are not gaining traction because the international media has not paid any attention to them. more »
