Why's Bono "painting Africa as a pathetic place whose wide-eyed, infantile populations need a loudmouth rock star to fight their corner"? And what's "changed in world politics to allow a silly singer to [be] a spokesperson for Africa...at G8"? [Aviva, mut
'Pompous, patronizing, paternalistic, a celebrity colonialist, Bono's got a fetishized obsession w/Africa's ability to give him 'a sense of purpose.' [paraphrases/various]. "Because Africa seems unfinished...a landscape on which a person can sketch a new
Bono's hubristic declaration that he "he represents a lot of people [in Africa] who have no voice at all …. They haven’t asked me to represent them. It’s cheeky but I hope they’re glad I do' smacks of celebrity colonialism–a rather glamorized ba
the african community has extended families who live in jericho and other areas of the west bank and gaza. the community traces its background through its oldest members to moslem pilgrims who came to palestine from chad and western sudan generations ago.
traditional values and and customs are meeting more modern behaviors within one generation as members of the african palestinian community make new ties to africa and to other africans in israel and palestine.
the african quarter abuts the great wall of the haram al sharif. seventy or eighty families live in apartments on both sides of a major access street that leads to the dome of the rock and the al aqsa mosque. These apartments are made in and around a four
Tcta is evidently a “new word for water” but in our experience it has come to encompass plagues, toxicity and serious health issues. Essentially, the Lesotho Highlands Water Scheme has been allowed to rot.