Benjamin Fogel, Africa is a Country
It seems that no music
video in the history of South African music, has attracted as much controversy
as the Cape Town hip hop collective Dookoom’s “Larney Jou Poes,” which loosely
translates into English as “Boss, you’re a cunt”. In the two weeks since its
release, it has attracted over 50,000 views and inspired innumerable op-eds,
mainly in response to the accusation made by the opportunistic far right-wing
Afrikaner lobby group Afriforum, that the video was racist hate speech. The
video shows Dookom frontman and OG Cape Flats rapper Isaac Mutant leading a
group of angry farmworkers on a tractor, and culminates in the word “Dookoom”
being burnt into the hill of a farm.
