Danny Schechter on Make Poverty History

NEW YORK, JUNE 13, 2005 — Before the telegraph and the phone and the satellite, Africans communicated through a people's technology, the drum. Today, the e-mail list and the Web have become the world's new drum, modern communications tools that operate outside or in the shadows of the glare of the Big Media circus. It's these new drummers that have made African debt the issue it is, not governments or media outlets.

Will African Poverty Become History?
By Danny Schechter
Mediachannel.org