Invisible Children
The trouble with ‘Kony 2012’
Celebrated Canadian author M.G. VASSANJI on Africa’s missing voice in the viral video media storm
The Kony 2012 Vanity Project
Watching the first four minutes of Kony 2012, the viral online video by Jason Russell, co-founder of the NGO Invisible Children, I thought I had clicked on a faulty link and was seeing a film-maker’s vanity project about himself, or his young son, or Facebook, or something other than Joseph Kony, the gargoyle who has run the Lord’s Resistance Army of child soldiers for the past three decades.