Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 10:27 am (UTC)
I think you're confusing things by bringing in ideas of "reality" and "true". I'm arguing that Nigerians and prawns alike both represent extreme racial stereotypes which are about ideas of racial identity, not the reality. The "reality" of the film is not about the "reality" of race in Africa, it's about the idea of race in Africa. To say that the film-makers are representing black Africans as dirty ignorant etc others is a radical over-simplification which leaves out all the complex layering.

"bakkie-load of day-labourers" right on, though.
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