As I talked about in my last post, I thought of another sterotype/ misconception about the typical African way of life. When the novel is talking about how the government is corrupt and that the military is becoming more involved it made me think of what we just learned about in another history class of mine. We learned that in Minnesota in the early 1900's, there was this exact same kind of corruption and it was to the same extend also. There is a story about a reporter in Minnesota who published an article exposing the corrupt government and he was arrested for it. I thought that it is interesting that having a corrupt government may be looked upon as a typical sterotype for an African country when we just were living it here in the US in the early 1900's.