It is the White farmers who matter!

Jan 31, 2009

WESTERN media houses are ignoring the plight of 10 million starving Kenyans even with President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga having hit the international begging circuit.

WESTERN media houses are ignoring the plight of 10 million starving Kenyans even with President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga having hit the international begging circuit.

Just about the only African news you get treated to seven days a week in The New York Times, the Washington Post and other major US newspapers and on CNN, the BBC and the rest of the West’s global airwave empire is how Robert Mugabe is destroying Zimbabwe.

It looks as though the lives of a mere several hundred Zimbabweans who are dying of cholera are more important than those of 10 million people eating nothing in Kibaki’s paradise! Western news organisations, especially the BBC, are mouthpieces for white farmers engaged in anti-Mugabe campaigns not genuinely concerned for black Zimbabweans.

Why would they care to give the same amount of coverage to the famine situation in Kenya so long as Kibaki does not threaten Western economic interests Mugabe-style? That is the reality we have to live with and the West does it all the time!

Bosire Mosi
United States

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