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Philadelphia Tribune - April Magazine - Blogger Nation - Index

Dennis Pinto
In today’s world, it’s important to read
between the headlines.
For instance, if Kenya and its African
neighbors received the same kind of
mass media attention about its most profound
problems as it has about its recent
post-election troubles, then perhaps the
continent could make some true headway
in its battles against extreme poverty,
chronic hunger and HIV/AIDS.
But alas, it sometimes seems these
critical issues, which are the root problems
underlying the post-election incidents,
are not newsworthy enough to
make headlines. Indeed, Kenya’s postelection
riots are known by many newspaper
readers, yet few know that an
African child is orphaned by AIDS every
14 seconds. It has been well documented
that 1,000 people have died in the two
months since the disputed Kenyan election,
but it is also true that 3,000 people
die of malaria every day in sub-Saharan
12 TRIBUNE MAGAZINE APRIL 2008
FEATURE
Fighting Africa’s true crisis:
Hunger
& poverty
Three thousand people
die of malaria every day
in sub-Saharan Africa.