Development always comes with a political agenda
An interview with the leaders of a viral online campaign originating in Norway aimed at exposing European ignorance about the foolhardiness of humanitarianism in Africa.
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It’s Africans’ turn to help Norwegians
A campaign by a Norwegian student group wants fundraising causes not be based on exploiting stereotypes. Also that aid be based on real needs, not “good” intentions.
Bono’s Big Ideas for Africa
Please, no more articles claiming to discuss African issues, but which are just rock stars turning up at US universities spouting nonsense.
Documenting Tuberculosis
In 2009, 1.7 million people died from TB globally, including 380,000 people living with HIV. The majority of deaths were in Africa.
Typecasting Binyavanga Wainaina
In "One Day I Will Write About This Place," Wainaina wants to create a life uniquely his own.
He must be American
A true competitive selection process may have turn up the best possible candidate as head of UNICEF and not power politics.
Escaping categorization
Ethiopian photographer Michael Tsegaye doesn't want to be pigeonholed. Neither does he want his country to be. So his art actively works against that.
There’s something about “ghetto pranks”
Youtube “ghetto pranks" are meant to expose poor black people as "naturally" and irrationally angry.
Trouble at the Global Fund
As Brett pointed out at the end of 2011, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB
Sudan in Berlin
"Berlin isn't Germany. Just like that website you write for—it's really its own country."
Fact Checking Mandela
It’s unfortunate the New York Times Book Review handed the appraisal of three recent books about
A new scheme to end poverty
This is so cynical: let people in poor countries send money to nonprofits in rich countries.