American amnesia.(Century marks)(Brief Article) From: The Christian Century | Date: September 6, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

AMERICAN AMNESIA: Americans are afflicted with a condition David Sarasohn calls "Africa Attention Deficit Disorder." Periodically, cataclysmic episodes in Africa appear on our radar screens. We hear of massacres in Sudan, starvation in Niger and the AIDS scourge in southern Africa. But in between upsurges of attention to Africa, Americans n...