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She says that the film is part of a wider "white saviour" mentality.

He added that Hollywood often wants films with black actors as long as they are accompanied by a "great white saviour".

"I really didn't want to write a novel about a white saviour flying into Nairobi and putting everything right," Crompton explains.

But almost immediately there was a backlash, with critics accusing Invisible Children of everything from lacking transparency to having "white saviour complex".

He was a narcissist, a megalomaniac, a racist war-mongering blowhard suffering from what one Twitter commentator called part of the "white saviour industrial complex."

For Al Jazeera Paley wrote "It reeks of the "white saviour complex" because it negates local efforts that have come before it."

However, the basic formula of the Hollywood stereotypes - at its heart the idea of the white lead 'going Native', the arrival of the 'White Saviour' - was not transcended, and there were still cultural errors in the film.

She also suggests there could be a "white saviour" mentality implicitly at work in the very conception of the film that could depict brutality against women as a specific socio-cultural problem of India; and she objects to the title, which describes women as daughters rather than people in their own right.

Teju Cole nailed it on Twitter, writing 'The white saviour supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening' and 'The White Saviour Industrial Complex is not about justice.

For the film version (1962), Gregory Peck assumed the role of white saviour, with his daughter Scout as his sidekick.

But also you know I'm Nigerian, I'm from Africa, my parents are from Africa and I just don't feel like there are enough stories out of Africa that are transcendent that aren't about dictators, or degradation, or poverty or to be perfectly frank "a white saviour" at the centre of the story.