Great 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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The power of a hashtag to go global on a very local issue is very inspiring to me. That said, global narratives can be for good, as in #BringBackOurGirls or disastrous, as in the case of…
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Wronging Rights has WTF Fridays, Africa as a Country has The Bullshit Files, so I think reviving my long ago abandoned #AfriFAIL is the only option possible. The reason that I couldn’t resist doing this is…
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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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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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The Romney Campaign Is Still Going Strong In Africa
July 9, 2013 #AfriFAIL International DevelopmentA couple of people sent me this link on Twitter. My first thought was, as usual, a slow boil of the sort that produces a 1000-word rant in the space of an hour. Since I’ve done…
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In which ONE Campaign responds to George Monbiot: Nuh uh, not true
June 26, 2013 #AfriFAIL International DevelopmentLast week George Monbiot pretty much eviscerated Bono and ONE Campaign in his piece for the Guardian, charging that the Irish crooner and his organization claimed to represent the poor, but in doing so, stole their voice.…
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On Miley Cyrus and ‘otherization’ in international development
June 21, 2013 #AfriFAIL International DevelopmentDodai Stewart at Jezebel has a great piece on cultural appropriation in pop culture. Stewarts arguments against cultural appropriation apply to aid and development critique. In the above titled piece, Stewart digs into Miley Cyrus’s latest…
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Forbes’ Kerry Dolan has a write up about GiveDirectly, a new highly-backed start-up working to change the rules on how aid is administered, by giving the money to the poor directly. At face value, I have…
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