Word: tickbirds
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...high, and new and old media each need the other to supply material and drive attention. What's happening instead is a kind of melding of roles. Old and new media are still symbiotic, but it's getting hard to tell who's the rhino and who's the tickbird...
Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino...
...tickbird still follows the rhino, and to the extent that Africa's new leadership has not met Africa's aspirations, or avoided the pitfalls left by its colonial past, heads have been rolling. The headlines of the past two months testify that Africa is still a continent of chaos and contradiction. Since the year began, crises have erupted at a rate of one a week, and it seems that in the alphabet of independent Africa, A is for anarchy, B is for bedlam, and C is for coup...
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