National Geographic: Diamonds of War: Africa’s Blood Diamonds

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Movies about Africa continue to grab my attention. It intrigues me that how such a rich continent for most part has nothing but misery and victims. Someone has rightly said that no one cares about Africa and one could clearly see that in either movies or documentaries.

This national geographic documentary, Diamonds of War: Africa’s Blood Diamonds, by journalist Dominic Cunningham-Reid takes us to the world where diamonds are not less than a curse. The movie, of course does nothing to break any kind of stereotype. It only reinforces the one that already exists about Africans as being exploited by the first world, that they are unruly and nothing can be done about some of the problems that exist there. And one of them being the illegal trading of the diamonds that continue to bring war, escalate poverty and tension in this region.

In the beginning I got a feeling…

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