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Awhile back the song was getting a lot of airplay again and there started being articles about whether a couple of white guys singing about a continent they’d never visited was appropriate. Blah, blah, blah. I’m not even sure you can say the song is about Africa. But it also coincided with remembering a different tone deaf ode to Africa, which was “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

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David Todd McCarty
David Todd McCarty

Written by David Todd McCarty

A cranky romantic searching for hope and humor. I tell stories. Most of them are true. I’m not at all interested in your outrage, but I do feel your pain.

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