A-List: The Last Resort
ONE is turning to its community of artists, friends, members and staff for their top picks on creative works that have enhanced their knowledge and understanding of the richness of African culture and arts. Today we have a recommendation from Peter Griesar:
Often we can be bombarded with news stories about parts of the world without really having a narrative sense to place these stories in context. For me this has been true for years when it came to the news coming out of Zimbabwe as the only context through which I could see it was the sad colonial history I had learned about in college.
After reading Douglas Rogers‘ faithful memoir “The Last Resort” I was reminded how important it is to remember that beyond the geopolitical angling in media and apparent sides to issues, it is the people’s struggle to maintain their sense of identity that can lead to unlikely alliances.
It is the unlikely alliances that are formed when a culture is under siege that often show us the long path towards a new beginning.
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March 6, 2010 at 12:15 pm
I hope that ONE can clarify a question for me: does ONE condone the personal opinions of its staff members (like Peter’s words in this review) being taken out of the context in which it is written and then relabeled as a quotation of the ONE Campaign?
In other words, can individual ONE staff members’ opinions be relabeled by others as words from the ONE Campaign? Or does ONE want people to refrain from doing this for liability purposes?
This has just happened this week in FB which is why I’m asking the question & would appreciate a response from the ONE office in DC.
Thanks & God bless.~
ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE – debbie
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