The first Kenyan mockumentary about NGO’s
"The Samaritans" explores the absurdities of the NGO world. The main characters work for "Aid for Aid," a fictitious NGO that “does nothing.”
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The Question of International Aid
How a documentary about a radio station provides a window into aid policy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
How about booking a night in this ‘shantytown’?
A resort in South Africa's Free State province offers guests accommodation in "a Basotho village and a shantytown." Who comes up with this offensive stuff?
Barack Obama’s “Power Africa”
Obama's energy program for Africa, risks appearing tentative and small-bore, like much of the administration’s Africa policy.
The danger of Africans becoming more “like us”
Discussions of the "shifting disease burden" fail to recognize that in the West diabetes or heart disease are not “diseases of affluence,” but diseases of poverty.
Pretty in Pink
One in ten young people on Cape Town's Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career - and sometime their lives - is prom, known as the matric ball.
