----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Coming from Africa, I found the movie's "African" pretenions hilarious -- Mickey Mouse in Kente cloth. Notwithstanding all the avenues of criticism re a disneyfied look at African cultures, social organization, its deployment of stereotypes etc, I find it an interesting reflection of Disney's attempts to break into a market niche supposedly defined by the renewal of "Afrocentric" identity politics among African Americans (which, in transposing the idealised memory of a collective past onto modern Africa, often makes itself vulnerable to this disneyfication -- the Africa of the imagination posited, for example, in an Arrested Development video, often has more in common with a Eurocentric tourist vision of Africa than it would like to admit...) Another angle on your analysis of the Lion King -- hope this is useful [log in to unmask]