Sudan: US Celebrities Pull Readers to Darfur - allAfrica.com
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Feb 20, 2009 New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has quite the traveling companion for his latest trip to Darfur – actor George Clooney.
Kristof wrote in his blog this week that he "decided that more people would read it if I put Clooney’s name in the lede." And Clooney has been just one in a chorus of celebrity voices to speak out on the Darfur issue. Don Cheadle (star of the movie “Hotel Rwanda”) wrote a book on Darfur with activist/analyst John Prendergast.
Kristof was one of the original voices to bring attention to Darfur, writing about the region when the violence was at its worst in 2004. Kristof points out in his latest column that the conflict in Darfur has lasted longer than World War II.
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