Remember #Kony2012? We’re still living in its offensive, outdated view of Africa
Some 10 years ago, the world was momentarily transfixed by a 30-minute film soundtracked by a heady mix of Nine Inch Nails and EDM, featuring shots of Adolf Hitler, crying children, and bodies lying in the road. It was called Kony 2012 – and it was meant to save a country that had not asked to be saved.
The inspiration for the film had come a decade earlier, when an all-white group of US filmmakers had met a teenager called Jacob while travelling in northern Uganda. Jacob was on the run from a rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), headed by a man called Joseph Kony.… Seguir leyendo »