Post by @xenotar
Just realised that the woman's voice at the start of Michael Jackson's 40 year old song Liberian Girl is singing the words "nakupenda pia" which means "I love you." In the East African language, Swahili.
Liberia is in West Africa.
That's really pissed me off.
Africa. Is. Not. A. Country.
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@davidnjoku@mastodon.world This reminds me of how, during the pandemic, news reports about COVID-19 in Africa treated it as a small, homogeneous country, generalizing local situations to the entire continent.@davidnjoku@mastodon.world