but the minister was truly convinced when he started singing the Star Spangled Banner and they followed along, hands on heart and everything.
Am I the only one that laughed with that part?

Ive heard stories about how children venture off into the jungles at night so raiding parties don't kidnap them out of their bedrooms at night. Just a sad place, and this story is yet another thing that adds to it all. But no one cares.
Ah, yes, also how children are sometimes forced to do things such as burring (Or however it's written) other children and families alive. And yet I find it terrible how the media never looks at Africa. It reminds me to some verses by the Catalan songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat, allow me to translate:

My name is Africa,
my name is Africa,
you look at me
and you don't see me,
or maybe you do not want
to see me,
or maybe where you are
you can't hear the begging
of my poor children,
that just as yours,
where given to birth by women.

My name is Africa,
Africa empty hands,
Africa big eyes,
Africa inflated belly,
Africa wire legs.


Hope it brightened your day!