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T.I.A.* (Jersey Shore Edition)

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T.I.A.* (Jersey Shore Edition)

By
Sean Jacobs

You’d never thought you’d see Ronnie and Pauli D from the MTV reality TV show “Jersey Shore” on This is Africa.*

One of my students, Thenera Bailey, (she blogs at New School Thoughts on Africa) forwarded me this picture she took of two of the characters from “Jersey Shore” fresh from watching the musical “The Lion King” on Broadway.   Thenera and two other students (Youssef Benlamlih and Hillary Lawton) were shooting a short video profile of a group of African immigrant artists making careers on Broadway when they spotted the ‘Shore characters .The wide eyed ‘Shore fans are Nomsa Mazwai, a singer and younger sister of Thandisa Mazwai (of South African-Zimbabwean group Bongo Maffin), and another South African, Ron Kunene, dialogue coach for The Lion King. Mazwai and Kunene are both subjects of the short video profile.  You can watch their short video here.

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