Short Term Trading Weekend Lounge: 15-17 Mar, page-4

Not long ago I was reading a critique on the popularity of this song in a well known magazine.  In a world where you can get a more than a million hits on the first day of a YouTube posting, the adoration for this one stands out.  A cynical author opined that the song's allusions to Africa were an erroneous romantic notion of the developed world and the western mind, noting as an example the errors in geography in the lyrics. I will argue that many who have spent much time on any part of the continent have had the hair stand up on the back of their necks when they hear this song.  Sometimes people put too much energy into finding inadequacies in honest attempts to pay homage or appraise things as best they can at a given point in history.