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Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa is a Country and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
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
The drummer, Louis Moholo-Moholo, now 72 and the last surviving member of the famed jazz bands The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood of Breath, is still out there performing.
Feature films produced for the Afrikaans market in South Africa, have many distinctive characteristics, including that they’re exclusively white.
