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- Protesters demonstrate outside Nigeria House in London on May 9 to demand the return of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the Boko Haram Islamist group.
A newspaper column we have read a thousand times and will read a thousand more (providing newspaper columns continue to be written) is the one that sprays Windex on a matter we supposed was clear enough and invites us to take another look.
This might not have been the perfect time for Brooks’s corrective. When Africa’s politics aren’t so dysfunctional, its governments not so incompetent and not so skewed to the elite, its recidivists less inclined to rampage through villages, kidnapping children and murdering everyone who stands in their way, its market for child slaves not so substantial, I suggest he try again. I don’t want to be told to keep those lost girls in perspective. No reader does.
