Hey VICE! Put some respeck on Nollywood’s name!
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/08/hey-vice-put-some-respeck-on-nollywoods-name
Though VICE has, in some ways, improved its Africa coverage — see, for instance, its reporting on the political crises in the Central African Republic —it continues to offer some familiar, adventurist, Tarzanist tricks. Think of the infamous “cannibals”-in-Liberia episode, which prompted the late New York Times reporter David Carr to pillory VICE executives for their exoticizing methods. Those affiliated with VICE appear to have learned little from Carr’s blistering critique. Among the worst offenders is its correspondent Thomas Morton. Take VICE’s recent television segment on Nollywood — the second half of an…
