Answer honestly –
had you ever heard of Cecil
the Lion before this week? Had any of the people filling the internet with
outrage ever heard of him? Don’t worry about it – neither had the folks in
Zimbabwe, but at least they have the decency to be ignoring the whole thing.
As
social media exploded with outrage this week at the killing of Cecil the lion,
the untimely passing of the celebrated predator at the hands of an American
dentist went largely unnoticed in the animal’s native Zimbabwe.
“What
lion?” acting information minister Prisca Mupfumira asked in response to a
request for comment about Cecil, who was at that moment topping global news
bulletins and generating reams of abuse for his killer on websites in the
United States and Europe.
The
government has still given no formal response,
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