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Sean Henry Jacobs is publisher of Africa is a Country and on the tenured faculty of The New School. He edits the substack, Eleven Named People.
A number of comedy videos lampooning Kony 2012 are making the rounds on social media. Some are funny, some are asinine.
It has come to this. Musicians, especially rappers, had to wade in on the American social media campaign to “Make Kony Famous.”
Actor Djimon Hounsou doesn’t take his own advice about the media he makes about Africa.
Detriot singer Sixto Rodriguez’ albums are masterpieces – at times on par with some of Bob Dylan’s work – but he was only famous in South Africa
Feature films produced for the Afrikaans market in South Africa, have many distinctive characteristics, including that they’re exclusively white.
