Appearing on the Colbert Report today night Sir Paul McCartney acknowledged that he recorded one of his 1970s albums in Lagos, Nigeria. Instead of showing gratitude to the people of Lagos for the time he spent there and the money he made off the album he recorded there, he decided to remember Lagos for the cholera outbreak that apparently happened there at about the time he was there. in fact, he says that he remembers Lagos for "the disease." It is quite sad that even with such an illustrious career, Paul McCartney cannot speak well of his own achievement without speaking ill of an African city. Mr. McCartney's statement is just the latest manifestation of the distance we still have to go in our effort to reform Western negative discourses about Africa. Mr. McCartney needs to address this matter in his own imagination.
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