President-elect Obama: Are We Our African Sisters’ Keepers?

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 12, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/387/president-elect-obama-are-we-our-african-sisters

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[1] Oxfam America has launched a petition drive which asks President-elect Obama to “announce his plan to end sexual violence in Congo.” Their demand is a worthy one. In effect, they are calling upon America to become “our sisters’ keepers” in the heart of darkness that modern Africa has become.

As America faces the most serious economic recession (or depression) since the last century, as civil and national wars rage everywhere, and as the world faces continued acts of Islamic terrorism–Oxfam is telling Obama that, despite our own increasingly limited resources, that the American mission rises–or falls–as a function of whether this great nation can continue to spread justice elsewhere. It is an almost impossible mission. But prithee pause and hear what’s going on in only four African countries.

Congo has been characterized as “[2] A Hell on Earth for Women” in the Nouvel Observateur. Rightly so.

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