The experience of western technology in West Africa seems to be mediated by multinational mining corporations, personal and corruption, killings, and desperate pleas. It is little wonder that one of the primary uses of email from West Africa is variation on this dreadful tale. As with so many things about internetÂ’s re-distributive aspects tied with these new mediations of our world, we are seeing our culture represented in ways that are unfamiliar, strange and implausible to us, but actually tell it like it is from the perspective of people in West Africa. Westerners look like people who would buy into this kind of thing and approve of the method of sales. Lachlan Brown -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup