Behind the image: Poverty and 'development pornography'

Jah made enough for everyone. Mama Africa is the richest 12mn square miles in the world. People and nations contiue to take from it without giving back, but keep the people on top of the land eating dirt and fleeing it at very great risk (cayucos) for (other) ways of illivity (western economies).
1994 Pulitzer prize picture shows a nile valley child watched over by nrt - sacred to Mut, mother goddess (bantu attributes, seen?).

In a world where graphic pictures of starving children are used by development agencies to raise funds from the public in the rich world, ROTIMI SANKORE critiques the phenomenon of ‘development pornograpy’ and argues that it has contributed towards deeper prejudice. New ways must be found to reach the public and more clearly explain the real reasons behind poverty in Africa, he states. (more)

Bconx: vulture watching over below. What is the true measure of our fall?

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