Invisible Children: Giving American Youth a Raison D’Etre
Ayesha Nibbe Almost nine months after the release of KONY 2012, Joseph Kony is a distant memory for most of the original 100+ million viewers of the historic viral video….
KONY 2012, Military Humanitarianism, and the Magic of Occult Economies
Sverker Finnström Abstract The global success of the film KONY 2012 by Invisible Children, Inc., manifests far greater magical powers than those of Joseph Kony and his ruthless Lord’s Resistance Army, which…
Global Summit on the Lord’s Resistance Army, Remarks by Johnnie Carson
Johnnie Carson Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs Hosted by Invisible Children Washington, DC November 17, 2012 Thank you for the kind introduction. Let me express my warm welcome to the…
Do No Harm
Ronald Atkinson An article filed from Dungu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and published on 4 April in The Guardian (UK) newspaper was titled, “‘We don’t know of…
The viral phenomenon Kony 2012: 100 million views for a non-event?
First published in French in Politique africaine, 125, March 2012. Sandrine Perrot, Sciences Po, Center for International Studies (CERI), France “We are storytellers. We are visionaries, humanitarians, artists, and entrepreneurs….
War victims angered by Kony 2012 video, say it’s motivated by profits
Sam Lawino Gulu Saturday April 21, 2012 As if in defiance of the controversy surrounding their Kony 2012 video, Invisible Children (IC), an American NGO in Gulu, has screened a…
Myth, Storytelling and the Wasted Potential of KONY2012
Juliane Okot Bitek For those of us who have been screaming against the wind to get sustained attention on northern Uganda, the emergence of the KONY2012 video in the world…
A Preamble: Why Africa Does Not Develop
Dennis Matanda There’s no doubt about it: These young people did an amazing job. They took a simple concept, developed it in their own terms and defined the conflict in…
Nodding Children
Sam Lawino was in Pabit village in Atanga sub-county, Pader district in March 2012, photographing the toll of nodding disease on children in the region. He captured these pictures of…
The Children are Nodding
This poem, composed by Juliane Okot Bitek, reflects on one of the glaring ‘invisibles’ in the Kony 2012 campaign. The Children are Nodding The children would like you to take…
