Haiti As Seen Through Pan African Eyes

Haiti As Seen Through Pan African Eyes, Tichaona Zindoga, The Herald (posted on allAfrica.com), February 23, 2010
FOLLOWING the devastating earthquake that left over 200 000 people dead and destroyed almost everything in Haiti last month, the world was treated to eccentric Western hype about self-inflicted poverty, hopelessness and the heroism of foreign rescue efforts. The West, through its media, even justified the occupation of this second largest Caribbean Island, which they religiously touted as the "poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere". More