photo credit: adage.com
Confession: I laughed out loud when I saw this advert before I weighed up whether Zimbabweans watching it on TV would find it just as hilarious. Now we all know Nando’s for its tongue-in-cheek commercials but this particular spot ‘titled ‘The Last Dictator Standing’ is not to everyone’s taste, and it has now been pulled.
An excerpt from advertising and media website Adage.com:
Chipangano, a Zimbabwean militant youth group loyal to President Mugabe, has urged people to boycott the restaurant chain, according to Zimbabwean state radio. Ahmed Tilly, CEO and executive creative director of WPP-backed Black River FC, said, “All I know is that Nando’s South African and Zimbabwean teams are in talks. I would imagine it’s a fragile situation. We were expecting some form of resistance from sections of the Zimbabwean community.”
The full story runs here.
What do you think? Did the well-loved chicken franchise go too far?
