Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Koinange: "It was an America that resembled a large African refugee camp"
CNN correspondent Jeff Koinange describes to The Gaurdian what it is like to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:"Africa has become an acceptable byword for disaster. Even some African journalists such as the CNN correspondent Jeff Koinange, a Kenyan, have been unable to resist the parallel.
It was an America that resembled a large African refugee camp," Koinange wrote recently in Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper. "This was the New Orleans I encountered in the summer of 2005. Not Niger, not Darfur, not Monrovia - New Orleans, Louisiana, the 18th state in the union.""
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