[lqclamar]

With the possible exception of Nigeria, the majority of West Africans do not live in these large cities.

Yet enough of them do for the refuse to be a major problem.

This typed by someone downstream from Minneapolis, Chicago, Saint Louis and Memphis.

Indeed, and as dirty as Big Muddy happens to be from both natural and human causes, the risk of raw sewage floating by is tiny compared to just about any major river in the non-civilized parts of the world. Over hear in the states we run out sewage through closed lines and into treatment plants that provide sanitation. Your kin simply dump it into the ally, which it follows into the street, then stream, then river, then back into the drinking supply. It's one of the reasons people travelling to Africa normally take vaccines while people travelling to any city on the Mississippi do not have to.

First of all, it's not "amateur": It's the website of a respected journal of African history and culture.

So respected that it devotes entire issues to the "culture" of hip hop music? http://www.africultures.com/anglais/list_article_E.asp#21

Remember - you said to look at their content. Well I'm looking at their content right now and I see a bunch of poorly translated PC-laden pseudointellectual Afrocentric left wing drivel...which would make it the perfect magazine for you!

[zimdog]

Yet enough of them do for the refuse to be a major problem.

A refuse problem does not make a country a latrine.

Indeed, and as dirty as Big Muddy happens to be from both natural and human causes, the risk of raw sewage floating by is tiny compared to just about any major river in the non-civilized parts of the world.

Leaving aside for the moment your implication that Africa is not civilized (in ironic contradiction to your earlier claim that most Africans live in cities), how safe is it to swim in the lower Mississippi?

So respected that it devotes entire issues to the "culture" of hip hop music?

Or as earlier cultural bigotry would have it:: "So respected that it devotes entire issues to the "culture" of jazz?"

Well I'm looking at their content right now and I see a bunch of poorly translated PC-laden pseudointellectual Afrocentric left wing drivel...

There may be problems with some of Africultures's translations, but they are better than those of the average "clean website of a small town U.S. paper." As for the charges of PC and pseudointellectuality, you would have to prove those. As for Afrocentrism, you should expect a publication about African history and culture to place African history and culture at the center of its publications.