For those of you who listened to Teju's and Tony's comments on the highly essentialized narratives about Africa that are being promulgated during the World Cup, the image to the left can serve as exhibit A. The image was released by ESPN before the tournament began as an example of what their World Cup studio would look like. You can see the Cup itself situated on what appears to be a pile of rocks? And then we see the desertic and bucolic landscape, punctuated with the quintessential African umbrella tree, under the unobstructed sunset. You don't have to strain yourself to find more examples, merely tune in to ESPN's coverage if ever during the next month you find a free moment.
A couple brief updates to my last post:
1. Raj Patel writes about slum-clearing and a slum-dweller resistance movement in South Africa, and is then interviewed about it.
2. Inequality, unemployment, and the evisceration of civil rights in the tournament's host country. It's definitely a bad sign when anybody starts a sentence: "At least under Apartheid..."
UPDATE: Danielle just brought my attention to this positively-Lion King like introduction to the US-England highlight reel.
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