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/ 22 January 2003

US consumerism is good for Africa

It’s a shame that Athele Wills didn’t have a better time during her holiday in the United States ("A world gone crazy", January 10). She could really have enjoyed herself if she had stopped obsessing about what she perceives as the US’s responsibility for starvation in Africa.

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/ 22 January 2003

Beware such care

Does AmeriCare? I ask, because President George W Bush was meant to visit four African countries this past week, including South Africa, but suddenly his diary became chocked-up with far more pressing matters than our distant, poor continent.