Kony 2022 ft. Dipo Faloyin
Added 2022-05-10 11:58:47 +0000 UTCWe're joined this week by Dipo Faloyin, a journalist, senior editor at VICE and the author of "Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa". In this episode, we talk about the legacy of Kony 2012 - one of the first 'super viral' social media campaigns, and the ways that it impacted the economies and societies of a number of countries in Africa. We also talk about the nihilism that emerged out of the failures of Kony 2012, and the ways they shape how we understand the modern internet, and, crucially, why we seem to have so little faith in it anymore.
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Read Dipo's article, here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/27/kony-2012-10-years-africa-problem
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Buy Dipo's book here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/africa-is-not-a-country/dipo-faloyin/9781787302952
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Comments
For those of us in the US, _Africa is Not a Country_ is apparently being published not by Penguin but by W. W. Norton: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881530 https://bookshop.org/books/africa-is-not-a-country-notes-on-a-bright-continent/9780393881530 I don’t see any first-party listing for the ebook, though, so I’ll probably buy it off Amazon unless I can find it for sale DRM-free somewhere else. (Kindle DRM is easy to crack at least for the device I have.)
Elsie Hupp
2022-05-10 18:35:15 +0000 UTCThe odd thing with Kony 2012 for me is not that I memory-holed it but rather that I was inactive enough on Facebook at the time that I didn’t find out about it until years after the fact.
Elsie Hupp
2022-05-10 15:32:51 +0000 UTCActually ONE MORE THING: if you’re trans they give you HRT basically at the drop of a hat.
Elsie Hupp
2022-05-10 15:31:18 +0000 UTCI’ll explain NYC versus London like this: you don’t have the NHS (though there are municipal hospitals), but your shitty apartment will probably be rent stabilized (AKA you’ll have assured tenancy). Also after just one summer in NYC you’ll be nostalgic for Britain’s perpetual greyness. I hope you like 30° with >80° humidity! One last thing is that aside from maintenance closures almost all trains here run 24/7, so you won’t have to spend $75 on a taxi home at 3am.
Elsie Hupp
2022-05-10 15:30:35 +0000 UTC
