Africa

Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography


I had just read Minna's blog, she blogs something about Kevin Carter photographer. It's really shocked me and i find this very useful to remind us, not to waste every single food. After reading Minna's blog, i went to yahoo search engine and even wikipedia to gather more information and sources to find out what's the whole story about.

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"Pulitzer Prize" winning photo by Kevin Carter

Taken during 1994 during Sudan famine. Picture depicts a famine striken child crawling towards United Nations food camp, located 1 kilometer away.

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so it can eat him. The picture shocked the world. No one knows what happened to the child as well as the photographer who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

Three months later, the photographer committed suicide due to depression.



This was found in his diary,

Dear God, I promise I will never waste my food no matter how bad it can taste and how full I may be. I pray that He will protect this little boy, guide and deliver him away from his misery. I pray that we will be more sensitive towards the world around us and not be blinded by our own selfish nature and interests. I hope this picture will always serve as a reminder to us that how fortunate we are and that we must never ever take things for granted.



The Movie "Blood Diamond"




After reading this, i know i was definitely right, whenever i can't finish my food i kept reminding myself the African suffer starvation to died and i even tell my house mate about the African starvation. I started to know more about Africa after watching "Blood Diamond" starring Leonardo Dicaprio. After watching "Blood Diamond" i was wonder it's that really happen in Africa? Again, thanks to nowadays modern technology i always can find the truth from internet especially wikipedia provide trustful and accurate sources. Sometimes movie it's a really good education tools, it's help me to gain knowledge and also documentary from "Discovery Channel".

k, I want to share my knowledge here that i know about Africa. Do you guys know "Child Soldiers"? Yes, exactly the real thing happen in the movie "Blood Diamond", RUF killed the villagers and keep their children and train them as a soldiers and brain wash them to loyal their Army Forces. This is cruel to the children to do this. Unfortunately, until nowadays child soldiers are still in a large number in African, there are around 20,000 child soldiers in Africa. Africa is a poor countries and people in Africa they used to fight for the natural resources like crude oil, ivory and diamond which broke out the civil war in Africa.

My conclusion is do not waste the food that we have. I am hereby trying to pray all the people who suffering in the world especially in Africa. Believe me, if you are reading it now, you are consider one of the luckily person in the world. At least you have a computer to reading it right?