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The concept is as simple as ordering take-out: pick your adventure from the convenience of your home by giving money and telling Pelton where to go and what to do, and Pelton and his team will…
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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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Spectra Speaks unloads on Mindy Budgor
September 14, 2013 Diaspora at work International Development WTF?Spectra at the Spectra Speaks blog went on a very effervescent rant yesterday over the whole Mindy Budgor debacle. I love this bit, because it resonates with my thinking on the topic of agency, cultural appropriation and…
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When did Maasai rites of passage become the latest cleanser for bored California girls?
September 12, 2013 WTF?I am just… I mean, I, have. no. I. Where do I begin with this piece? I am without an appropriate response to this. So I am just going to let you come to your own…
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If you ever need a “no-nonsense” lawyer in Kampala, Uganda, this is your guy. David F.K. Mpanga takes on the badly managed UMEME, Uganda’s lone, notorious electricity generator. Now, if you are going to threaten anybody, leave…
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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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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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Part 7 of 10 clips taken on Weds Aug 07th, when a fire broke out at the arrivals section of JKIA (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport) Video of the fire engulfing Kenya’s main international airport shot by…
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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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