«A death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic».

The African continent has been a victim of civil war, hunger and bad distribution of resources for centuries. After the Berlin Conference, in which the continent was divided among European imperialists like pieces of cake, Africans have been forced live within borders that don’t fulfill their purpose because of political and cultural reasons. One example of this is the Rwandan Genocide in which hundreds of thousands were killed because of socio political tensions between two sectors of society forced to co-exist in the same land.

Civil Wars like this are still active in many sub-Saharan African countries and they have cost the lives of thousands of civilians. It is disturbing the number of Africans who die every day as victims of racism, hunger, disease, etc; reasons that shouldn’t be so common anywhere in the world and that are a daily reality for many. Maybe if powerful countries were less preoccupied about weapons of mass destruction they would be able to see that the real terrorists are poverty, disease, hunger and exploitation to fight terrorism they should be, in some way, making up for so many centuries of abuse against Africans.