Aid Thoughts

I've just been made aware that DC Comics will be launching a new Batman comic - set in Africa. Specifically, they've made up a city called Tenasha, which sounds a little better to my ears than Zamunda but still could wind up being an epic example of poverty po , especially when you read sentences like this:

And, if you think about it, is there any continent more in need of a superhero than Africa?

That said, I'm going to do my best to put aside the cynic in my head who's screaming 'this is going to be a train wreck! Look away!', because for once it seems that even if they do think Africa needs saving, they don't think they're the ones to do it:

Written by Judd Winick (Green Lantern, The Outsiders) and animated by Ben Oliver, Batwing won't be a black American who travels to the Motherland to fight crime—he will simply be African.

After all the adverts and campaigns that promote the Africa is Hell, We Must Save It tropes, it's kind of nice to see something that recognises that it is Africans who have the greatest degree of agency to change Africa, even if it's the only cliche they avoid.