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Bono & His Representation of 'A Lot of Africans Without a Voice'

blacklooks.org — Bono's hubristic declaration that he "he represents a lot of people [in Africa] who have no voice at all…. They haven’t asked me to represent them. It’s cheeky but I hope they’re glad I do' smacks of celebrity colonialism–a rather glamorized bastardization of old school colonialism [at the very least]. He's impinging on Africans' agency...

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  • avivamagnolia, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0...by inserting himself into dialogue with African leaders who have no accountability to the very Africans Bono is trying to 'represent.'

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