Post by jesse on Feb 13, 2015 16:55:29 GMT 3
Where local comedy shows could have provided leadership, we have been left to amuse ourselves on stale ethnic, sexist and religious stereotypes; re-arranged prejudice is fast passing for analysis, even as advertisers cash in.
Thus, for instance, Kenyans and Tanzanians are literally butchering each other online over unresolved issues in the tourism sector, but no comedian is drawing parallels with the seamless wildebeest migration across both nations each year, which makes a mockery of the nationalist tensions we maintain towards each other.
This moment of wider learning will remain lost if audiences continue to settle for the current menu, and producers think it is more expensive – and harder work – to pull a local Stewart.
More: www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000151412&story_title=comedian-s-appeal-lay-in-his-global-vision&pageNo=2
Thus, for instance, Kenyans and Tanzanians are literally butchering each other online over unresolved issues in the tourism sector, but no comedian is drawing parallels with the seamless wildebeest migration across both nations each year, which makes a mockery of the nationalist tensions we maintain towards each other.
This moment of wider learning will remain lost if audiences continue to settle for the current menu, and producers think it is more expensive – and harder work – to pull a local Stewart.
More: www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000151412&story_title=comedian-s-appeal-lay-in-his-global-vision&pageNo=2