Not a tract, but still good news

This isn't a tract. Its good news though. I was watching a 16 minute-long video report on colonialism and India's technological coming-of-age made in 1995. The protagonist, Valdura, a small South Indian village commercially centered around fishing. The antagonist, an american company called Enron which, at the time, was very interested to build a plant where their village had still functioning, a comparativly primitive system of order. Im not sure if the plant ever got built or what happened to Enron, but its not really that important to the reason I am writing this. Having watched this heart-warming tale of booming industry and hope and struggle, I suddenly felt so socially conscious and wondered what else is going on in the third world (or went on 18 years or more ago.) Embarrassingly, I didn't even know what exactly I was looking for, so I just typed "Africa". The first videos to appear below were "Africa by Toto" and "Africa by Karl Wolf featuring Culture" (which, as it turns out, is a cover of the more popular version of "Africa" by the band, Toto). Right away, the first frame of Toto's "Africa" is too boring to click. Karl Wolf's though, has a first frame that looks something like what one might assume to be a carribean beach scene, tanned, bikini clad female strutting, in tact. But Karl Wolf? Who is Karl Wolf? I just clicked it though. It must have be destiny because I haven't been able to think about much else since last night when I spent several early morning hours digging up information on Karl Wolf. The video is from this year 2008, I believe. Karl Wolf is still active and has a myspace, fan site, merch and more: everything a vastly popular Canadian pop/dance/club/hip-hop star of today should have, especially when captivating the love and support of most of the modern middle-eastern teen and pre-teen demographic. He's brash with often a complete disregard for seemingly reasonable and logical lyrics, while genuinely expressing love, reminds me slightly of R. Kelly's more obscure works. Check out the video, its actually pretty heavy. Or actually, it takes some weight off my heart.

Here is the link to the video if the video itself isnt there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lOoId21B1Q

Lyrics to Africa :

It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in twelve-thirty flight
Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say: “Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you”

[Chorus:]
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become

[Repeat chorus]

[Instrumental break]

Hurry boy, she's waitïng there for you

Im pretty sure the lyrics of the video edit version are different. They dont seem to match up, but this is what all the most credible sources provide.

www.karlwolf.com
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=19506253 -Karl Wolf myspace, is he coming to your home town soon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p--pq2VtSUs -Economic Colonialism in India (1995)