My friend, Wendy Willems (currently with the NGO War on Want, but soon a newly minted lecturer of media studies at Johannesburg’s Wits University took this photograph on a recent work trip in Nakuru, Kenya.
My friend, Wendy Willems (currently with the NGO War on Want, but soon a newly minted lecturer of media studies at Johannesburg’s Wits University took this photograph on a recent work trip in Nakuru, Kenya.
wow.. that’s interesting
Hey Sean! When we were in Nairobi, for the World Social Forum, around the corner from where I was staying, there was a photo shop. In the window, a portrait of Kabila. Then a bigger photo of Arafat. Then a bigger portrait of the Pope. Then a huge photo of Obama. And that was in January 2007.
This year, of course, we bought an Obama bag in Kalk Bay, for a friend here in DC. Ha!
I remember last year when I traveled to South Africa for an end-of-year break, my little nephews prized an Obama t-shirt above everything else I brought back from New York City.
His picture is very common in Tanzania too. Clothes, buses, calendars, and lots of other places.
Dan: It’s fascinating how Obama gets written into radical Third Worldist narratives and in some accounts even trumps someone like Nelson Mandela.
I’m not sure if your friend knows this, but War on Want has long been supporting and organizing anti-Semitic campaigns that discriminate against Israel and the Jewish people.