Accessible, emotive, the ultimate conveyor or distorter of truth, the photograph is all-powerful.
The conch shell, the most frequent of marine shells used to produce sound, may have begun its service to music as a voice distorter, later to become an effective trumpet.
It's as if a national-amnesia button got pushed, one able to wipe out memories of the actual President: the former reality-show star, real-estate brander, double-talker, and serial distorter of reality.
The functioning principle of the distorter is very simple.
Urdu, a distorter of tongues, pilfering as it does from Persian, Hindi, but largely Arabic, uses the masculine word for coup d'etat – inqilab – for revolution, rather than the accurate feminine: thawra.
Ethiopia has been extremely successful in dialoguing with the government to a point where the government could play its role as key supporter, instead of distorter, as in some other countries.
