Citing the absence of media coverage for the rest of Africa, the writer makes us aware that much of Africa is seething with discontent much like we've seen in North Africa and the Middle East. Citizens in the rest of Africa are definitely aware of the events to the north and they suffer much the same hardships under similar regimes.
...globalisation and the accompanying economic liberalisation has created circumstances in which the people of the global South share very similar experiences: "Increasing pauperisation, growing unemployment, declining power to hold their governments to account, declining income from agricultural production, increasing accumulation by dispossession - something that is growing on a vast scale - and increasing willingness of governments to comply with the political and economic wishes of the North.
