Wednesday, February 20, 2008
SMS used as a tool of hate
When Joyce Mandela’s cellphone beeped to signal she had a SMS, the 27-year old Kenyan expected a note from a friend. Instead, she found a message of hate. “If your neighbour is a Kikuyu, just kick him or her out of that house. No one is going to ask you anything,” the SMS read. “You don’t know who is sending them, you don’t know how they got your number,” said Mandela, leaning against a lush fruit tree surrounded by squalid tents in this refugee camp next to one of the capital’s sprawling slums.
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