Not that complex
A new HBO documentary exposes the harm caused by unqualified aid workers in Uganda, but its attempts to complicate the narrative ultimately fall flat.
A new HBO documentary exposes the harm caused by unqualified aid workers in Uganda, but its attempts to complicate the narrative ultimately fall flat.
For all the coverage about Kamala Harris' Afrobeats Spotify playlist, or her search for her grandfather’s house in Lusaka, her African trip is about shoring up US positions.
Somalis have enough to worry about. The last thing they need is more war, especially one sponsored by the United States’ War on Terror.
The Liberian academic and writer talks about citizenship, belonging, and what unites her fragmented nation.
NGOs have been notably absent in the fight against COVID-19, despite claims they exist solely to ensure accountability and transparency by government.
A new film about Kony 2012 is a lesson in how not to fight simplification with more simplification.
In recent years, Rwanda and Ethiopia have been some of the largest recipients of aid money from the UK and US governments, as well as some of the West's leading philanthropies, including the Gates Foundation.
Scandals like the one at More Than Me—the US charity that failed to protect school girls in its care from rape by staff—are common in even the most elite aid organizations.
The time is ripe to ask not "does aid work," but "how does aid work?"
The disfunction with American voluntourism and Christian outreach in Africa, that in some cases have led to abuse.
What are the political dynamics that may have led to the adoption of Germany's ambitious framework to reinvigorate Africa's development.
The world's most extensive humanitarian crises is currently playing out in northeastern Nigeria and around Lake Chad.
Why does being in on the joke not slow down the desire to save Africans?
When you have as much money as the Gates Foundation, you can buy your way into some pretty powerful places.
For all the good press, the majority of German society are uncomfortable with people who frame their demands from a postcolonial perspective.
Humanitarian images have obscured the causes and political complexities of disasters, and undermined the agency of their victims—both symbolically and practically.
Israel's promotion of itself as a technologically-advanced "white savior" on an aid mission to poor black nations, is a marketing ploy to cover the occupation.
Germany’s military shift represents the country’s belated entry into a “colonial present.“
Will the new African Centers for Disease Control really be an African CDC?