To write about africa. Hat nine bloodedly good essay, how to read about africa by which he meant of course all of us who write about the continent should stop representing that. Hes down with the following. Broad brush strokes throughout are good. Avoid having the african carrot tears laugh or struggle to educate their kids or just make good mundane circumstances. How could the women except in about europe or america and africa. African characters should be colorful, exotic, larger than life, but empty inside with no dialogue, no complex resolutions in their stories come in no kirks to confuse the cause. Perhaps we could start there since it seems to me that your book is precisely what hes advocating in his essay and that is a portrayal of africans as people with their own agency. And idiosyncrasies and a sense of destiny. So what inspired the project in the first place . Were you fed up at the way africa was being reported on from what you call Poverty Point . Yes. That is the short a
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More terror. Her two boys on their own somewhere else in the mall. She said she wanted her brothers, and i told her that we would see them later. But just when things seemed hopeless, two heroes would appear. I told the lady now. And a little girl would show us all the meaning of courage. When porsche got up and ran, did you have a moment when you thought, oh, my god . Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres kate snow with nowhere to hide. Its the modern day town square. A Gathering Place that fulfills our every need, shopping, eating, socializing, a trip to the mall is an escape on weekends. And not just in america, in nairobi, kenya, the modern West Gate Mall was the place to unwind at the end of the workweek. It was the last place you would expect Something Like this. Gunshots, explosions, armed men taking over every floor, methodically shooting anyone in their way. That was the unbelievably brutal scene that played out in front of a shocked world on september 21st. Just after t
Zone. Police waged intense battles with the gunmen. This as we are getting word that a fierce Islamic Terror Group is taking responsibility for the attack. It is called, and you display heard of it, al shabab. It is based in neighboring somalia. And some of the representatives are on twitter today sending messages that all muslims were escorted out of the Shopping Mall before the violence began. And the group will not negotiate. One victim describes the chaos. We tried running away, but we were told they are also covering the place so we cant escape. So we had to move back into the corner, the left corner of west gate, and we were all there and we tried escaping and they threw a grenade and the grenade the sharp particles entered into my hand and leg. There were very many peel who were injured. You heard him say west gate. Thats the name of the Shopping Mall. Connor powell has more from our mideast bureau. Connor . Alshabab is aal alqaedalinked group and they wreaked havoc on that coun
And a third set of pipe bombs, one of them exploded on the jersey shore yesterday. All similar in kind. This is what is left after the two bombs that exploded. On the left, a wrecked dumpster that new york that bomb in new york that detonated inside of the dumpster. On the right, a trash can on the route of a charity 5k race in seaside, new jersey. Nobody was hurt in the seaside bombing. Only three of the pipe bombs in the trash can in new jersey actually detonated. Theyre not saying with certainty that all three of the bombs in new york and new jersey are exactly the same or necessarily made by the same person. But we now know they are all similar by design. Everybody, get off of the street lets go, get off the street saturday night, 8 30, people in the manhattan neighborhood of chelsea say the blast hat rattl the street and apartment buildings and sent everyone in the vicinity running and ducking. All 29 people injured in the blast have been released from the hospital. While the inve