General News Terrorist Attacks in Nigeria

If you'd clicked BBC News - Africa you would have seen all of it reported. Yes France was headline news and not surprisingly, that's not to take anything away from the tragedy over there but we had a major terrorist attack in the capital city of a Western nation that is right next door to us. It's obvious it would have been bigger news than anything else.

As I said it takes nothing away from the African tragedy, but the same can be said of many, many things, there is a lot of very bad stuff going on around the world. Syria, Iraq, N.Korea etc etc

 

I was actually talking to my step-dad about this. I'm quite baffled at why the Paris attacks are getting much more media attention than all the attacks on Nigerian villages. I'm glad that everyone is so rallied up against extremist terrorist groups, but I feel like more attention can be put to this.

It's tragic what is happening in Nigeria.

 

It's really, really not hard to see why the terrorist attack in France went straight to the top of the headlines.

 

This has actually been reported before the Paris attack. But as always, people are not going to talk much about a country they can't even point out on the globe comparing to something happened in their backyard.

Horrible things happen everywhere, and I hate it.

 

My dad is very quick to point out the flaws of the Western world, but when things are happening in his home country he either downplays them or glosses over them completely. A shame that part of my heritage is home to people who not only choose irrationality over education, but make that decision for others, in this case, death.