Hollywood saves the world....One African Baby at a time

Are you tired of it yet?

Images of Hollywood celebrities floating in the Internet, seen on CNN, splashed on Newsweek-- and none of these events features them promoting any movie. More likely, you’ll see them cuddling an African baby from an obscure village in Sudan, Uganda, Malawi, or some other sun-dried sounding towns, or pontificating infront of Larry King or a Washington D.C. stage about AIDS in Africa.

Yes, Africa is the new black (forgive the pun).

Celebrities think they are saving Africa, but it's probably the other way around. Africa is currently the biggest and most powerful PR machine in Hollywood.

Seen gambaloozing at 2am half drunk with other wasted starlets? Schedule a photo op for UNICEF. Newly divorced with an album that bombed? Volunteer as a spokesperson for a mission in Kenya. Peeved that only Africa doesn't have an idea that you're the biggest popstar of the world? Do some impromptu performance in Malawi with the tribal women and adopt one of their babies. You want to wear a powersuit because you're tired of baring skin for work? Go to Washington and lobby about the refugees in Africa. Has your career paled as much as your skin? Paint some tribal colors on your face for a black and white photo and declare that you're actually not from New York's Upper East Side, but from South West Africa.

Americans must be feeling quite threatened and intensely disliked so they want to show the world that they're actually nice people.

Hey Kumar from Pakistan, look, we really care. We're not just rich, junk food loving people who watch Reality TV all the time and think the entire world should speak English. We actually want to make a difference.

Forgive the cynicism, but I don't need to fly to Africa to save the world. The thousands of street kids and beggars in the city of my birth is enough to satisfy any humanitarian minded celebrity.