Hi Western media. This "Dark Africa" tone in your reportage is NOT cool. Viruses mutate. The reason you know about "South African" variant is because our scientists have the tools for sequencing & communicating openly. UK is sequencing. USA & many others are not sequencing. So

You don't know what variants YOU have because you are not doing the work of finding out. Covid 19 is not about upmanship. Scientists are telling you "easily transmissible" doesn't mean more lethal. But your reports imply otherwise! Tone down on the hysteria & Dark Africa trope!

Some of your "world leaders" questioned the science! They didn't take Covid 19 seriously. They led the buffoonery. And got Covid. We have major problems YES! But there was never an anti-science stance at that level here. There is a name for that "Dark Africa" impulse!

So check yourselves and the slant of your reportage. I guess it is what happens, when you are reporting on "the world" but are the only people in the room. You look and sound the same, with no regard for the identities, innovations, & enterprise of the Africa on which you report.