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/ 29 May 2007

Can ‘someone in a hotel room’ report on all of Africa?

When one considers that Africa is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent, taking up 20% of the Earth’s land area and accounting for 14% of the world’s population, the question of whether it can be covered by one person should be ludicrous. And yet the question remains relevant because many international newspapers have only one person covering all the news on the continent.