{"id":1257,"date":"2013-10-17T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T10:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/new\/ie\/news\/electric-picnic\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:45:40","slug":"electric-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/electric-picnic\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Africa @ Electric Picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concert goers at one of the Summer\u2019s biggest rock festivals got to \u2018Think Africa\u2019, when they took part in a novel video project hosted by Self Help Africa at Ireland\u2019s Electric Picnic.\u00a0 Over 120 festival fans took part in the project, while more than a thousand viewed the resulting video clip within a week of it being posted on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Our video aims to challenge those enduring perceptions of Africa commonly held in the West, and promote the vision we see- a continent of exceptional and vast potential. 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