Do they know it's Christmas? from rain new song Watch Video
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Description: [Graphic 1: “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” was written in response to a famine in Ethiopia in 1984.]nnMAGATTE WADEnThe Christmas song raised awareness, and it was in response to a particular crisis. I understand that. But it also perpetuates a false image of Africa as barren and a sentimental image of Africans as helpless and dependents.nn[Music: “Where nothing ever grows. No rain or rivers flow. Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?”]nn[Graphic 2: “In 2011 the television show G