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Kyle Gordon returns with pitch-perfect satire of “white guy goes to Africa” pop

Grant St. Clair
Jul 23, 2026
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I wish there was a better name for weirdly paternalistic “white guy goes to Africa” pop than, well, all that. You know what I mean, though, surely: it was the stuff Paul Simon trafficked in, painting an entire diverse continent as a mystical spiritual wonderland and its inhabitants as enlightened monks.

It’s weird! It’s also exactly the kind of hyper-spe…

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