Africa Is a Country

Found Objects No.20

Found Objects No.20

By
Sean Jacobs

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From an episode of American comedian Drew Carey’s sketch comedy show, “Whose Line is it Anyway.” In the video from the show, Carey introduces a regular feature, “African Chant” (the sketch involves the actors making up “an African chant” based on the name of an audience member. Some of you may recognize Wayne Brady in the clip.)

Carey inadvertently blurts out that Africa “is a big country.”

The edited clip (above) highlights how throughout the rest of the episode cast member Greg basically reminds Carey of his gaffe. Carey gets him back by the show’s end.

Here are two more instances of the “African chant” from the show: examples one and two.

Further Reading

Goodbye, Piassa

The demolition of an historic district in Addis Ababa shows a central contradiction of modernization: the desire to improve the country while devaluing its people and culture.

And do not hinder them

We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.