New York Times’ Baz Dreisinger visits Kampala and indulges in a bit of lazy journalism: It all made for a lovely evening, though hardly the one I’d expected in Kampala, Uganda. To many, after all, the…
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Dear Telegraph, I just happened across your Up close and personal: Dale Morris’s portraits of wildlife in southern Africa. I know this is being a little too sensitive but ever since Teddy Roosevelt and his colonial…
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Amanda Taub at Wronging Rights finds a rare gem in the development communications landscape littered with poverty porn mines: That’s not a westerner’s idea of what a remote, exoticized “African” would want to do. Rather, those…
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Muso Okwonga reflects on Godfrey Bloom’s racial outburst against aid to African countries: The first thing is that I think that Godfrey Bloom’s comments, for which he subsequently expressed regret, are spectacularly racist. To dismiss Africa,…
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The Newsroom recap: Africa plot was stupid and offensive
August 6, 2013 #AfriFAIL International Development WTF?Willa Paskin over at Slate attempts to take down the Newsroom’s Unintended Consequences episode as yet another generalization of the African continent by the White Savior Complex: In the episode, Maggie and her colleague Gary Cooper…
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Delegates agreed to charge $100 (Frw 60,000) per tourist intending to visit the three countries for up to 90 days in any of the three countries. It would be paid at the point of entry into…
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In 2012, over 750,000 Ugandans sent home $1 billion
July 31, 2013 International Development technology Uganda758,294 Ugandan emigrants sent home $948 million in remittances in 2012. That’s fast approaching the $1.6 billion Uganda received in development aid in 2011. The really interesting nugget about Ugandan immigrants (at least according to this…
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AfriLabs: A new grant to support Hub Collaboration
July 23, 2013 International Development Projects technologyWith so many innovation hubs emerging in Africa, it seems timely to support an initiative which will facilitate collaboration between hubs, so as to establish a Pan-African movement. We are delighted to announce that The Indigo…
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Invisible Children, the Christian Right, and the $400 briefcase
July 17, 2013 #AfriFAIL International DevelopmentLast week I wandered into the SOHO canyons to buy my wife a gift. Since we’ve been in New York, we’ve spent every weekend exploring the different burrows of New York. For whatever reason, we’ve ended…
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Chris Blattman on giving cash to the poor as the equivalent to being given shoes and laces: So is it time to stop giving people skills? Not entirely. Part of the reason these Ugandan youth did…
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