Reporting from Africa, another debate...

The journalist Tristan McConnell reacts to "How not to write about Africa," a recent opinion piece Laura Seay, an assistant professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, wrote for Foreign Policy:

She describs herself as “an old Africa hand,” bemoaned the foreign coverage of Africa. It makes her “cringe,” she wrote.

Tristan McConnell is GlobalPost's senior correspondent for Africa. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya and has lived and worked in Africa since 2004. He is also a correspondent for The Times of London and Monocle and has written for various magazines including the Columbia Journalism Review, London Review of Books, The Nation, New Statesman, New York, Prospect and the Virginia Quarterly Review. His reporting has won the Diageo journalism award and been recognised by the Kurt Schork Awards.

Laura Seay is, again, an assistant professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, USA.

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Here is the link to Tristan McConnell's article in the Gobal Post: 

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/commentary/journalists-africa-reporters

Here is the link to Laura Seay's column:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/25/how_not_to_write_about_africa?page=full

Make up your mind...