Gado’s editorial cartoon in today’s edition of the Daily Nation is priceless.
Up at the top are briefcase carrying Wall Street fat cats venting their anguish at and bemoaning the global financial crisis.
Down below is a rural African man balancing a hoe over his right shoulder and a carrying a small portable radio in his left hand from which, I presume, he’s receiving news of a financial crisis. Next to him is a rural African woman with a baby on her back and a bucket on her head exclaiming “…crisis? What crisis!?”
It’s like this: all your neighbours have electricity and you don’t, but then someone comes along and cuts the electricity supply and your neighbours begin to gripe because of all the things they can’t do on account of their being no electricity but your life goes on because you didn’t lose anything because you had nothing to lose.
So it turns out that this is an equal opportunity year: we have two global crises on our hands, The Global Food Crisis, and the Global Financial Crisis, each attacking at different extremes of the pyramid while all the while piling pressure on that sometimes bloated middle.
When we look back at this year from the distance of the next, I wonder what we will think about how much time and other resources we spent dealing with each of these crises, and what that will tell us about who we are.It's my window, but I don't own the view.
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What An African Woman Thinks
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The Big GFC: Global Financial Crisis? Or Global Food Crisis? Posted: October 27th, 2008, 9:57am CDT