Taylor Swift's latest music video '' Wildest Dreams'' is criticized for being 'racist' and based on a 'glamorous white colonial fantasy' of Africa

Taylor Swift's latest music video is being battered by critics who claim it is racist and pandering to 'rich white fantasies' from a colonial era.  

The video for Wildest Dreams, which was revealed during the MTV VMA Awards coverage on Sunday Aug 30,2015, has a mainly white cast and revolves around two 1950s-era movie stars - played by Swift and Gran Torino actor Scott Eastwood - filming in Africa.

There are only two black actors, who play soldiers, and they appear in the background. The mock film crew are white. 

Director Joseph Khan insists the video is a 'love story' and has no political agenda. But music fans have rushed to Twitter to describe it as 'colonial garbage'.