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Yeah, I definitely 'read' it that way as well. But the more I think about it and hear from Black people, and given the fact that it's written by all white men for an almost all-white audience ... it's harder to see it as a real callout of American/white views of Africa. If it were it probably wouldn't be so easy for us to laugh at? And I do think it's paying lip service to the idea that that presentation of Africa is absurd, but in reality the laughs are at the stereotype playing out, not at people who believe the stereotype — if that makes sense.