Are they even aware that Christmas is approaching? Life is the best present they will get this year (oooh).
Samarajiva not only implied that the song’s lyrics generalize Africa as a whole, but it also makes listeners feel sorry for the locals.
“This is all wrong, really. In Africa, it does snow, but not very much,” she said on her blog. “They have water, food does grow there, and centuries before England, North Africa.
Which was a part of the Roman Empire, celebrated Christmas.” “You can say it’s all a metaphor, but what does the metaphor convey,” she went on.
That Africa is a barren, gloomy continent that white men must unite to rescue?” One user on X wrote: “Have you heard Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ yet?
