Eager to see what the UN and Liberian government are actually doing, VBS meets up with a local journalist who plops us down in the center of West Point, the worst slum in Liberia. Without any modern plumbing, the people of West Point have taken to using the beach as a dump and giant outhouse. The area smells like, well, a dump and a giant outhouse, and it goes without saying that residents’ health suffers a whole host of issues. Here we also happen on a young Liberian rapper, who gives us a couple verses about the scourge of Africa: AIDS. From there it’s off the visit a heroin den, where we watch a twelve year-old smoke heroin and describes raping a woman at gunpoint. It gets worse.
Friday, 22 January 2010
VBS TV: The Vice Guide to Liberia 3 Episode 3
From Theo Spark at 08:39
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This is nothing new...
Google "Africa Addio" a similar doco made by Italians in 1966.
Africa hasn't changed.
Jimmah Carter tried to have it banned -as did most of Europe. It was decried as "racist" .
The "vice guide" doco just proves that truthful would be a better one word description.
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