1. Once upon a time a group of evangelicals led by a young American called Jason Russell made a video that became the most viral video of all time. It was a call to action against a guy called Joseph Kony, an apparently ‘obscure’ warlord and his coerced army of child soldiers in Uganda. That was in 2012. One massive media backlash and a naked psychotic episode later, Buzzfeed checks in with where our White Saviors are now.
[blockquote source=”Noelle West,”]“I don’t know if you’ve been in a media shitstorm, but I’ve never been, none of us had ever been, and it was the most traumatic and overwhelming crisis-bringing thing that ever happened to any of us,”[/blockquote]
2. In a poetic narrative, musician and international star K’Naan goes back to Somalia for the first time in 20 years
[blockquote source=”K’Naan”]The beating heart of my story is this: I was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. I had a brief but beautiful childhood filled with poetry from renowned relatives. Then came a bloody end to it, a lesson in life as a Somali: death approaching from the distance, walking into our lives in an experienced stroll. At 12 years old, I lost three of the boys I grew up with in one burst of machine-gun fire — one pull from the misinformed finger of a boy probably not much older than we were. But I was also unusually lucky. The bullets hit everyone but me.[/blockquote]
3. Today in WTF, Vogue Italia goes there. We’re waiting for the press release about ‘..this is satire..’ blah blah.
4. We have no idea who she is, but a K-Pop star called Yenny visited “Africa” to stop poaching
5. Show Me the Money: The New York Times does a write-up on the ousted Central Bank of Nigeria Head Lamido Sanusi. No mention of the alleged sex scandal though.
[blockquote source=”NYTimes”]At a time when political energy in Africa’s most populous country is focused on next year’s elections — and staying in power is costly for a governing party that functions as a patronage machine — Mr. Sanusi knew exactly which interests he had menaced, he said. He had been warned to “cool down.”[/blockquote]
6. Sierra Leone’s former president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah died
[blockquote source=”NYTimes”]Mr. Kabbah led Sierra Leone both during and after an 11-year civil war in which some 120,000 people were killed, many gruesomely. He was praised for instituting a disarmament program that led to the official end of the war in 2002, with the help of a United Nations peacekeeping force and British military trainers. But after the war, he was criticized for failing to lift his country out of poverty.[/blockquote]
7. In Egypt the first trial for a doctor who performed FGM
Africa Redux Founder Chi Kaitano.
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