Africans Don't Just Live to Die. A Response to the New York Times.

8 January 2021
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If reporting on Africa just caters to readers craving a glimpse into the strangeness of how the other half lives, we lose the chance for true internationalism.

Were it not for the notoriety of Western media's often reductionist reporting of the Global South, I would be confounded by the New York Times article published on 4 January entitled "A Continent Where the Dead Are Not Counted". Bylined from Lagos, its central thesis is that the low death rates from COVID-19 in "Africa" are because Africans do not report deaths.

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