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Where in the world is Demi Lovato because Africa isn't a country part 2 (Updated: because she's in Kenya)

10:32:00
In the first part of this series (Where in the world is Demi Lovato (Because Africa isn't a country?) I asked that Demi, tell us where exactly in Africa she was because saying that you're in Africa, the second largest continent in the world, is a little bit like saying that you're on Earth. It's rather meaningless, as there are 54 very different countries on it. In my opinion it's only permissible the first time you say it. You can say, "OH MY GOD! GUYS! I'm in AFRICA y'all!" but, you can't say you're in Africa 3 times in a row, and then post a video of Africans singing in an indigenous African language, because, you haven't said anything worth saying. Of course, the Africans singing in their indigenous language is a little bit of a clue, but it flies over my head as there are probably over 3,000 languages in Africa, and I'm no language specialist. If you're a specialist in African languages, then you are welcome to it.

For the sceptics out there, if I said, "I'm in North America" on Monday, and then I said, "Oh My God! North America is awesome" on Tuesday, and then I said, "I'm having the best damn birthday in North America" on Wednesday, wouldn't you think I was a muppet? You'd probably assume that I was off my meds or something.
That's tweet number three about Demi being in Africa. She posted it alongside the picture below:

Are you sure you're in Africa? You look like you're in your backyard on a sunny day being silly. Well I guess that's the problem with Africa  most of the time it won't look like you've imagined it. There are safaris but I don't know that many of us are that interested in them. When the same lion has been stealing your goats for a year, it shifts from being an exotic African beast to being a bloody pest. Having said all that, she does look fairly good looking in this shot so she's forgiven. I'll forgive a pretty girl anything. 
After that tweet came this one

There's a keek video attached to it:



Well, thanks for that Demi. I'm really happy that they appear to be wishing you a happy birthday. I'm wishing you a happy birthday too, but I'd really like to know where in Africa you are because it's getting a little bit ridiculous now.

Happy Days,
Afam

I've just learned that Demi's in Kenya on a Me to We volunteer trip. She's helping build a Free the Child school. Of course you must see that my problem with Demi's tweets isn't that I didn't know where Demi Lovato was, or that she didn't know where she was. It was that she repeatedly referred to one country as Africa, and that is abysmal. It's a sensitive issue with me. Africa is too vast, and too diverse, for any bit of it to be referred to as the whole of it. And my sensitivity is not unfounded. After all, living in Nigeria, and being aware of the tension that exists between the North and the South serves as a constant reminder of the results of the last time our individualities were disregarded for convenience. So I will not sit down, and keep quiet, when Demi Lovato tells her 17 million followers that she's in Africa. 
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Where in the world is Demi Lovato, because Africa isn't a country.

19:37:00
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It is about time that the conversation about Africa changed. The conversation has been so ill informed that an unbelievable number of people still present Africa as one country, and not a continent with 54 countries.
On the 14th of August, Demi Lovato, the ex-Disney Princess and current American pop sensation tweeted this:

Now, I imagine she meant well, but could she not tell us where in Africa she was going? And if not that could she at the very least not have added a building or a person to her collection of frogs, caterpillars, cattle, monkeys, snakes, elephants, tigers and the sun? From her tweet, one can easily infer that she expected to be shown a sprawling savannah with an amazing outcrop of rocks where Rafiki was in the process of officiating Simba’s naming ceremony. I’m sure she was extremely disappointed when she found that not only did the animals not hold a party for her arrival, but that there couldn’t possibly have been any tigers in attendance because there aren’t any tigers that are indigenous to Africa. 
And what of after she hopped in the plane and flew to “Africa”. Surely she’d know where exactly in Africa she was as she’d have looked at her visa because believe it or not there are no “African” visas but no, she didn’t, so she still doesn’t know where in Africa she is. And no, I’m not making this up. Why else would she tweet this?
If Demi, a rather wealthy, reasonably well travelled 21 year old American is so ignorant, then what hope is there for the rest of them? I can hear the excuses forming in your heads. You think I’m reading too much into it don’t you? But wouldn’t you think it odd if I landed in Paris and said “Am I seriously in Europe right now?” 
As the lifestyle and health editor of Voix, I will attempt to change the conversation or at least contribute to it. Contrary to public opinion, or at least the opinion expressed here, there are buildings and people in Africa. When I say people I don’t mean wildlings roaming about in loincloths, I mean people doing things that people do everywhere else. I can’t speak for the whole of Africa (because it’s not a country), but I can speak for Nigeria (one of the countries in Africa), and I didn’t spend Friday night running away from an imaginary tiger. I went to a nightclub. It’s a decent nightclub as far as nightclubs go. And please don’t imagine that it was in a hut, and that we made music with animal skin drums, and bamboo sticks.
 So Demi the next time you tweet, please let us know where the devil you are.

Happy Days,
Afam
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