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Found Objects No.20

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Found Objects No.20

By
Sean Jacobs

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From an episode of American comedian Drew Carey’s sketch comedy show, “Whose Line is it Anyway.” In the video from the show, Carey introduces a regular feature, “African Chant” (the sketch involves the actors making up “an African chant” based on the name of an audience member. Some of you may recognize Wayne Brady in the clip.)

Carey inadvertently blurts out that Africa “is a big country.”

The edited clip (above) highlights how throughout the rest of the episode cast member Greg basically reminds Carey of his gaffe. Carey gets him back by the show’s end.

Here are two more instances of the “African chant” from the show: examples one and two.

Further Reading

No one should be surprised we exist

The documentary film, ‘Rolé—Histórias dos Rolezinhos’ by Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Vladimir Seixas uses sharp commentary to expose social, political, and cultural inequalities within Brazilian society.

Reading List: Barbara Boswell

While editing a collection of the writings of South African feminist Lauretta Ngcobo, Barbara Boswell found inspiration in texts that reflected Ngcobo’s sense that writing is an exercise of freedom.

Kenya’s stalemate

A fundamental contest between two orders is taking place in Kenya. Will its progressives seize the moment to catalyze a vision for social, economic, and political change?

An annual awakening

In the 1980s, the South African arts collective Vakalisa Art Associates reclaimed time as a tool of social control through their subversive calendars.

More than a building

The film ‘No Place But Here’ uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.