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09/06/2004:

"Inside Africa today: a correspondent's guide"

Every few weeks, National Public Radio will devote one of its talk shows to the subject of why Africa is ignored by the media. The place brims with all of the stuff that news is made of — drama, disease, religious wars, slaughter, death — yet until any of these factors reaches "humanitarian crisis" proportions, Africa does not make front-page headlines. At some point during the NPR hour, the host will acknowledge that NPR itself has only three correspondents in Africa, as if the place were a large state in the Midwest rather than a continent of 53 countries.

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