Gentle Readers
You may remember a piece I posted about the oil disaster in Nigeria, "Quiz: What Does Nigeria Have That the US Wants?"
Of course, if you're like most Americans, you skipped it because America doesn't care very much about Africa . . . and when it comes down to individual countries, well, don't even bother trying to figure that out. O, there's an entire continent called Africa? Can you help me find it on a map . . . I think I have one somewhere . . . O, here's the one I got from AAA for Indiana. Will that do?
NO . . . Africa is the world's second largest continent. And all this time you thought that it was Texas, didn't you? Or maybe Alaska, because Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her living room window?
And that Africa's population is the second largest in the world?
Let's not even begin to discuss that fact because racial bigots will make all kinds of derogatory comments.
But, hey, if they don't like that statistic then they might be comforted to know that Asia is the largest continent, and that its population is the LARGEST in the world: 4,001,623,990 don't forget to count all the way to 4 billion.
See what I mean?
To continue then: People in Niger face a terrifying food shortage, or what they call it in the rest of the world: a famine read up on this as you eat your second bag of Doritos or your healthy, organic stuff you purchased at the high end grocery store in the fancy part of town or your faaaast food....
Here's the article I want you to read "Signs of Niger's Worsening Food Crisis" by Caroline Gluck Photo: Skye News in today's Huffington Post (21 June 2010).
When you've finished and had time to mull this news over a bit, well, I don't know what you want to do next. But here are a couple more articles you can read to continue your education about Niger's plight. What you do then is up to you.
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