Malaria & Bush: Love Him or Hate Him, George is in the Jungle.

Only about 19% of Americans approve of Bush’s overall performance as president of the United States. Yet the president’s recent visit to Africa has stirred up a lot of media coverage about the troubled continent.

Monkey in the Jungle

Sub-Saharan Africa doesn’t have too much time to worry about things such as Iran’s thirst for nuclear weapons. Although surprisingly the belief in terrorist threats is significant throughout the country of Zambia.While we shot our documentary, Devil’s Cataract (to be released this summer), we were stopped outside of a secret military building in Lusaka. We were detained by several military and secret police officers. We were held for more than 3 hours and were told they feared we may be terrorists. However, we were only armed with a Nikon, a digital memory stick, and a macro lens. The military officers demanded we turn over our film. They simply did not understand the nature of digital memory sticks. Their suspicion grew. We tried to show them previews of our images – mainly children suffering from malaria and macro pictures of vegetation. An officer lectured us about the military’s fear of terrorism. I’m not quite sure how bad terrorism is inLusaka but the fear certainly existed. Eventually we were let go and convinced them to let us keep our 2GB of memory (an abstract concept for the secret police?).Cab drivers throughout the region explained to us that they felt positively about Bush and the war on terror. Most people we spoke to perceived terrorism to be a large threat and were aligned with the American president’s politics.In part, Africans may be well aligned with Bush because during his presidency the United States has given billions of dollars in aid to help prevent disease such as malaria and AIDS.Malaria kills more than 3,000 children each day.During our filming in Africa last August, Bill Clinton and Laura Bush were visiting Lusaka, Zambia to help raise awareness about issues such as extreme poverty and malaria. Laura Bush donated several bicycles to help improve transportation. Clinton spoke about his foundations efforts to reduce disease and improve the economicsituation of Sub-Saharan countries. Both Clinton and Laura Bush were extremely popular during their visit.

Hopefully the next president will be able to maintain the positive relationship among the US and Sub-Saharan countries. I’m optimistic.

-ed lyman

 

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My goal is to help save 100,000 lives from malaria and with you we can do it together.

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