看待非洲,既要有历史眼光,避免把过去的非洲当成眼下的非洲,又要有全局视角,避免一叶障目,以错误的“非洲整体观”判断非洲我们所处的这个时代是资讯爆炸的时代,同时又是资讯扭曲的时代。只要我们打开电脑,敲几下键盘,各种资讯便铺天盖地扑面而来;可是当我们需要某些特定主题的资讯时,使尽各种办法搜索,也找不出多少有用的资讯来。关于非洲资讯,属于后一种情况。今天我们接触非洲信息要比10年前方便许多, Looking at Africa, we should not only have a historical perspective, but also avoid seeing Africa from the past as the present Africa. We must also take a holistic perspective to avoid blind spots and judge Africa in a wrong “whole of Africa.” We are in this era of information explosion Times, but also times of information distortion. As long as we turn on the computer and tap the keyboard, a great deal of information pops up, but when we need information on certain topics, we do everything we can to search and find no useful information. The latter case is about information in Africa. Today we are much more accessible to Africa than we were a decade ago,