Thanks to Mohamed Keita, the Africa advocacy coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, for his opinion piece in today's New York Times. The title of his commentary is "Africa's Press Problem". This press "problem" is one is related to other "problems" I have commented on in previous posts and concerns...China. Yes, not only is China bribing its way into Africa's vast resources, promising jobs, growth, development in the African nations it is exploiting, but now it is engaging in the censorship of the press corps of Africa's nations. So, while China complains of interference by foreigners in its affairs regarding Human Rights and other Universal Rights, claiming that Chinese history and culture exempt it from scrutiny and judgement by the rest of the world, it not only interferes in politics and economies of Africa, but also in those very same rights it claims is hands off to the rest of the world. Talk about double speak and duplicity.
