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Africa, the slightly covered continent, was the focus of the weekending feature on both ABC and NBC. NBC did not even leave New York City for Jeffrey Rossen's Making a Difference profile--although he had to take a boat. Rossen traveled to Staten Island to profile Jacob Massaquoi, a human rights activist during the Liberia Civil War: "Rebels killed his brother right in front of him. Jacob himself was tortured and shot in the leg. So he fled to New York." He now runs a community center for his fellow refugees.
ABC's Persons of the Week are Milton and Fred Ochieng. Anchor Charles Gibson told us about the Kenyan-born brothers who trained to be physicians at Dartmouth College and Vanderbilt University. While they were in Nashville, the Ochiengs attracted the attention of a Barry Simmons, a local television news reporter. Simmons quit his TV job to become a documentary filmmaker. His movie Sons of Lwala follows the Ochiengs' decision to honor their late parents, both killed back home by HIV/AIDS, by raising the funds and returning to run a clinic in their native village.
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