Summary Detailed annotations of 'A passage to africa' by George Alagiah
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Course
English
Institution
GCSE
Detailed annotations for 'A passage to africa' by George Alagiah, a non-fiction text GCSE students will need to know for questions 4 & 5 for their English language exam at the end of year 11. These annotations go through the whole text and point out which quotations would be best to use for Questio...
I saw a thousand hungry, lean, scared
and betrayed faces as I criss-crossed
Somalia between the end of 1991 and
December 1992, but there is one I will
never forget.
I was in a little hamlet just outside
Gufgaduud, a village in the back of
beyond, a place the aid agencies had
yet to reach. In my notebook I had
jotted down instructions on how to get
there. ‘Take the Badale Road for a few
kilometres till the end of the tarmac,
turn right on to a dirt track, stay on it
for about forty-five minutes —
Gufgaduud. Go another fifteen minutes
approx. — like a ghost village.’ ...
, In the ghoulish manner of journalists on the hunt for the most striking pictures,
my cameraman ... and I tramped from one hut to another. What might have
appalled us when we'd started our trip just a few days before no longer
impressed us much. The search for the shocking is like the craving for a drug:
you require heavier and more frequent doses the longer you're at it. Pictures
that stun the editors one day are written off as the same old stuff the next. This
sounds callous, but it is just a fact of life. It's how we collect and compile the
images that so move people in the comfort of their sitting rooms back home.
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