Refusing to Be Silenced by Dominant Narratives.

One of those strange moments when the internet's algorithms get it spectacularly wrong, and in doing so accidentally make a very different point.
Chine McDonald writes movingly of the moment she sang the African praise song 'Imela' in St Paul's Cathedral, in the Igbo language of her Nigerian ancestors. I'll post about that later

But I went looking for that event on Youtube and couldn't find it. So I Googled it, and found several of Chine McDonald's interviews, but no clip of her singing this piece.

But two or three entries down Professor Google suggested 'McDonalds in China', a seven minute clip in praise of brand saturation, globalisation, and the erosion of diversity by cultural hegemony. Chine McDonald writes about narratives that marginalise, absorb, and eventually dissolve cultural identities; McDonalds in China is a pervasive agent in that process.

Chine McDonald is not wrong about the power of dominant cultural narrative, and the need to tell the other stories. More on all this when I write a couple of review posts.