About a month ago, my colleague Solome Lemma and I started looking at the international response campaigns to ebola in West Africa and got to wondering why all the attention was on international governments and NGOs.…
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IDEX, Africans in the Diaspora Announce New Partnership
September 18, 2014 Diaspora at work International Development newsCongrats to Solome Lemma and Africans in the Diaspora: “AiD was formed with the belief Africans abroad and on the continent have an important role to play in development in Africa” said Solome Lemma, AiD’s founder…
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There is, of course, an uncomfortable neo-colonialism to this mission, one reinforced by countless pictures of the white pastor greeting a room full of black Africans. Yet according to some observers, the obvious racial overtones may…
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Scott Gilmore’s piece on the ebola crisis: But, as grim as the death count sounds, it fades when compared to the 564,000 Africans who died from malaria last year. And this carnage is mostly confined to…
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2015 International forum for young leaders call for applications
September 12, 2014 Events & Conferences International DevelopmentI had the pleasure of chairing the 2013 Echenberg Fellows program. If you are reading this and you would like a chance to engage with a group of your peers doing amazing things around the world,…
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The Economists review of my book reveals how white people still refuse to believe black people about being black | Edward E Baptist | Comment is free | theguardian.com
September 8, 2014 International DevelopmentEdward E. Baptist responds to the Economist’s deplorable review of his new book about slavery: If you write about the history of slavery, you become used to the pattern: No matter how many accounts you cite…
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Othering, Ebola and the history and politics of pointing at immigrants as potential disease vectors – The Washington Post
August 25, 2014 #AfriFAIL Health International DevelopmentGreat takedown of the Newsweek ebola cover By Laura Seay and Kim Yi Dionne in the Washington Post: Newsweek’s use of a chimpanzee to represent a scientifically invalid story about an African disease is a classic case…
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Can we have a conversation about not allowing each other to think of ourselves as less than anyone? We are equal in every sense to any other human. We need to have pride in ourselves, in…
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BBC News on the launch of Internet.org: Mark Zuckerberg’s passionate interest in internet.org’s mission certainly seems genuine. But a business with 1.3 billion users that needs to to show investors that those numbers are continuing to…
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Hamisi Kigwangalla, Member of Parliament in Tanzania on why Sub-Saharan Africa didn’t experience an ‘African Spring’: One of the key mobilisation tools of the middle class – technology – is also not so readily available in…
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