[FoME] Al Jazzeera & "Tutu's Children"

[Radiobridge at aol.com]

Hier kommt im Zusammenhang mit unserer Debatte über "Kommerz und  
Medienhilfe" der Hinweis auf eine aktuelle Dokumentationsserie von "AL JAZEERA"  
(englischsprachiger Dienst), die nach meiner Meinung verdeutlicht, wohin die  
Reise gehen kann, wenn Idee, Struktur und Format der Welt von "Corporate  
Business" entlehnt wird.
 
In vier Episoden, die im Fernsehen und im Internet zu verfolgen sind,  
werden in einer Art "Reality-TV-Format" 5 von insgesamt 23 jungen afrikanischen  
Persönlichkeiten dabei begleitet, an wechselnden exklusiven Örtlichkeiten 
des  "Corporate Business" darauf gedrillt zu werden, eventuell einmal 
moralische  Führer Afrikas zu sein.
 
Nicht Donald Trump oder Reiner Calmund sind Rollenmodelle dieser  
Moral-Lehrlinge, sondern: DESMOND TUTU:
 
_www.aljazeera.com/programmes/tutuschildren/2012/10/201210151280403481.html_
 
(http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/tutuschildren/2012/10/201210151280403481.html) 
 
Desmond Tutu leads an experiment to build a network of inspirational  
leaders to tackle Africa's most stubborn problems...
 
With exclusive access, this series follows Tutu's 23 person-strong  class 
of 2012, focusing in particular detail on the lives of five very different  
participants, as together they are coached to become a 'moral task force' for 
 Africa. ...
 
"Tutu's Children" offers a rare chance to witness a turning point in  the 
lives of those who may one day change the course of Africa's  history.
 
WOWWWH!
 
Nach Besichtigung einer Folge gestern abend bei "AL JAZEERA" suchte ich im  
Internet nach kritischen Reaktionen aus Afrika. Es ist nicht viel zu 
finden,  weil das Web voll gepflastert scheint mit Bio-Pics der teilnehmenden  
afrikanischen Elite-Vertreter. Auf eine kritische Stimme, mit einem allerdings  
wenig afrikanisch klingenden Namen, sei hier verwiesen:
 
_http://africasacountry.com/2013/01/22/al-jazeera-joins-the-africa-rising-ba
ndwagon/_ 
(http://africasacountry.com/2013/01/22/al-jazeera-joins-the-africa-rising-bandwagon/) 

Al  Jazeera Joins The ‘Africa Rising’ Bandwagon
JANUARY 22, 2013 BY STEFFAN  HOROWITZ 

We recently posted a bit on Forbes Magazine’s list of the  40 richest 
Africans. In a similar vain, Al Jazeera has chosen to glorify  Africa’s 
privileged few and feed into Western media outlets’ current obsession  with the “
Africa Rising” narrative by releasing their four-part series, “Tutu’s  
Children.” With the first two episodes up on the website, I’m still not entirely  
sure what the point of it all is supposed to be.
The series follows  twenty-five successful business people (and a Kenyan TV 
presenter thrown in for  good measure) from across the continent who have 
been chosen as ‘Tutu Fellows’  by the South African non-profit organization, 
African Leadership Institute  (whose founders, Sean Lance and Peter Wilson, 
are themselves retired white South  African oil and pharmaceutical 
executives). All twenty-five individuals are  flown down to South Africa, where they 
participate in group activities and  workshops, as well attend lectures 
from icons and experts alike (including  Desmond Tutu, himself). The producers 
of the series would like us to believe  that these twenty-five corporate 
darlings are ‘Africa’s leaders of tomorrow.’  Yet, the whole thing plays out 
like a cross between a poorly conceived and  edited reality television show 
(not as bad as this, but close) and an  extravagant corporate retreat. The 
take away of the series would appear to be  that business entrepreneurship and 
corporate capitalism will be Africa’s saving  grace. ...
 
The entire group, with the exception of a Tunisian participant who had  
been involved in the Arab Spring, quickly comes to the consensus that Africans  
are not yet ready for democracy; implying at times that the so-called ‘
masses’  are not intelligent enough, or too easily bought for democracy to work. 
They  instead consider a “benevolent” dictatorship, like that of Paul 
Kagame in  Rwanda, to be a better alternative. The Zimbabwean sounds like he was 
making  excuses for Mugabe, and so on. ...
 
How deeply unsettling it is to see that these folks, who are supposed  to 
be the new generation of African leaders, have such little faith in the  
people they will ostensibly be leading.
 
Klaus Jürgen Schmidt grüsst
mit einer Erkenntnis aus Afrika:
"Häuptlingslösung"
vor 23 Jahren notiert und damals schon umstritten:
_www.radiobridge.net/der%20weg%20auszug.html_ 
(http://www.radiobridge.net/der%20weg%20auszug.html) 
 
 
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