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Remember # Kony2012? We’re still living in its outdated view of Africa Dipo Faloyin

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

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