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'i think that most of Africa is cast in quite a singular fashion, largely because the only time it makes our news is when a civil war or famine takes place: hence the stereotype that it's a continent filled with starving people and weak political structures.
The 'dof and Mandela put Ethiopia and South Africa respectively onto the world map, but in so doing secured for a very long time and for an awful lot of people the way in which those countries are now perceived.
This is even going on the States. Katrina has now defined New Orleans for an awful lot of people (at least wthin Britain) who knew almost nothing about the place before - besides maybe some vague notion about Mardi Gras, old jazz and those lovely houses in A Streetcar Named Desire.
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