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.
The rhetoric around “Africa rising” is giving us a false sense of comfort and distracting us from the real work that needs to happen.
Representing Africans as helpless and without dignity while showing ourselves as knowledgeable problem-solvers is the problem and not part of the solution.
Bob Geldof doesn't need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.
Why don't western friends of Africa not put pressure on their corporate and political elites to do more to combat hunger?
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.