There is a big difference between “This is not my story, but I am telling as best I know”, and “This may as well be my story, and I can change what I like.”
The whole White people poking fun at Black dictators was probably seen (with some truth) as less satirising Idi Amin (say), than using him to make a point about how all black black African leaders are ridiculous figures, aping their white betters badly.
Now, on the other hand, we can contrast Mugabe against Mandela.
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Date: 2009-02-21 10:10 pm (UTC)The whole White people poking fun at Black dictators was probably seen (with some truth) as less satirising Idi Amin (say), than using him to make a point about how all black black African leaders are ridiculous figures, aping their white betters badly.
Now, on the other hand, we can contrast Mugabe against Mandela.