Is Africa really rising? No.
The rhetoric around “Africa rising” is giving us a false sense of comfort and distracting us from the real work that needs to happen.
Bob Geldof
Have we learned nothing?
Representing Africans as helpless and without dignity while showing ourselves as knowledgeable problem-solvers is the problem and not part of the solution.
They do know it’s Christmas
Bob Geldof doesn't need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.
The legacy of the ‘German Bob Geldof of development aid’
Why don't western friends of Africa not put pressure on their corporate and political elites to do more to combat hunger?
Two Annoying White Men
When Canada's Globe & Mail newspaper thought it was OK to get two white, Irish men to edit a special issue of the paper on Africa.