Saturday, October 29, 2016

Is Disney all we know about the world?

I love this song called Baba Yetu. It is an extremely interesting Swahili composition for orchestra and choir by Christopher Tin. The lyrics are the Lords Prayer in Swahili. I showed it to my roommates and one of them goes, "This reminds me of The Lion King" and then the other one agreed. And my response was, "yeah cause it's African and that is all we know about Africa often." While yes, the landscape for The Lion King is East African, and so is the Swahili language, it really made me think about the impact of Disney and how much we take it as a truth.

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