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The Banality of Sentimentality

Teju Cole is a novelist and journalist who lives in New York. He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. On Thursday he took to Twitter to express his thoughts on the Kony 2012 phenomenon, the “White Savior Indust…

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The Banality of Sentimentality

Teju Cole is a novelist and journalist who lives in New York. He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. On Thursday he took to Twitter to express his thoughts on the Kony 2012 phenomenon, the “White Savior Industrial Complex” and “the banality of sentimentality”.

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This article was originally published on OWNI.eu by Teju Cole and is republished here for archival purposes under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
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