In two consecutive instalments, fellow columnist Delta Milayo Ndou spoke about an important issue as the digital divide in Zimbabwe gets narrower and narrower. If this writer got her right, she was saying the information glut in cyberspace has created a major constraint: separating truth from untruth; authoritative from unauthoritative information. I totally agree with Ndou's observations, and would add that in our environments, where these gadgets are still considered elitist, the additional problem is determining the veracity of the information that passes through the growing number of electronic platforms.
This piece about the Saharawi (Sahrawi) Arab Democratic Republic is just about that, and, I was saved by the African Union's information and communication directorate's July 25 statement on the state of Morocco at the 27th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of AU Heads of State and Government Summit, held in the Rwandan capital Kigali, recently.
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