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Wednesday 19 September 2012

Rick Ross Angers Nigerians. He Should Learn Something From This Kenyan Video

Rick Ross Angers Nigerians. He Should Learn Something From This Kenyan Video

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Africans are pretty good at making noise every time a Western video that shows them in less than impressive light is released.
If Africans can't help themselves out of their situation, then maybe they should make poverty videos that are actually positive, the way The Very Best did in Kenya.
American rapper, Rick Rose recently released a video for his track, Hold Me Back which was shot in Nigeria. The video has angered Nigerians because it was shot in the Nigerian slums instead of the nicer places in the country. The video starts with the news broadcast of the Biafran War, then goes on to show different shots of either poverty or volatility in the country. Here's the video.

The Very Best, a pop made up of a Brit and a Malawian came to Kenya to shoot a video for their political track, Yoshua Alikuti. The video was shot in Huruma and the Mathare slums, and somehow, they found a way to not only not make it negative, but also kinda funny.
The clip spoofs Lil' Wayne's famous A Milli clip and provides an alternative view to slums in Africa, without necessarily making fun of the people. All it does is glorify a certain lifestyle and shows us "it's all good in the slums." And the group got rewarded when they were nominated for the MOBOs. Read about it here.

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