The current state of Africa is in turmoil because of the lack of sustainable development.

• There have been over 9.5 million refugees and hundreds and thousands of people have been slaughtered. If this scale of destruction and fighting was in Europe, then people would be calling it World War III with the entire world rushing to report, provide aid, mediate and otherwise try to diffuse the situation. (http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/Intro.asp)

• Yet here, as mentioned in the Media section of this web site, the western mainstream media does practically nothing to raise this awareness (or, the owners and the influencing actors of the mass media companies perhaps do not think it is important enough to report extensively about). Occasional coverage is provided, but not anywhere near the volume like we had seen during the build up and the ensuing crisis in Kosovo.

• before, more coverage about issues concerning Africa could be found on the internet than the traditional mainstream media outlets, but even then it was not as easy to find the information--now, the popular press in the West are providing more information on African news, but the problems is that these are often very brief and without the much needed perspectives and backgrounds from political, historical, socioeconomic angles etc.