"Somebody right now, at this very moment, is buying a pack of cigarettes in Abidjan. There is another couple making love, or maybe there are many, I am sure of it, telling the war to fuck off and fucking their way into oblivion. Make love, not war. Just fuck the images of the roadblocks and the Kalashnikovs and the muscled young men out of consciousness."
— Mark Canavera in a heartbreaking lament about this week’s violence in Cote d’Ivoire, you should read the full essay available via Chris Blattman
