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  • Martin Herrndorf

    Challenging a Meme: When ’Africans’ Are ’No One’

    You may have seen the image online: A bus station photo-shot featuring two posters in simple style, with the captions "one dies, million cry" under the Apple brand mark, and "millions die, no one cries" under a map of Africa. The poster implies that the world would be a better place if only people (Westerners) mourned African deaths more. Really?

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