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Africa for Norway. Amazing.
The video is humorous, but there is a serious message. The point is that images of helpless Africans are just as inaccurate as the idea of helpless freezing Norwegians. A lot of Africans cannot relate to the patronizing videos and development initiatives.
The organization says it has certain goals with the video. Among them, that fundraising “should not be based on exploiting stereotypes” and that media should have more respect in portraying suffering children.
“We want to see more nuances,” it writes on its website. “We want to know about positive developments in Africa and developing countries, not only about crises, poverty and AIDS. We need more attention on how western countries have a negative impact on developing countries.”
A+ satire.
(Source: NPR)
A list of the 10 best contemporary African books as chosen by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, deputy editor of Granta Magazine via The Guardian.
Titles:
- The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (2010)
- Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (2010)
- Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela (2010)
- The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu (2010)
- Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou (2009)
- African Metropolitan Architecture by David Adjaye (2011)
- Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste (2010)
- Heart of Darkness by David Zane Mairowitz, Joseph Conrad and Catherine Anyango (2010)
- Mama Miti by Donna Jo Napoli/Kadir Nelson (2010)
(via kilele)
Karongi village on Kivu Lake - Rwanda by Eric Lafforgue on Flickr.
(Source: glaciations, via dynamicafrica)
Indeed it could! That’s an initiative from our dear friends at Engineers without Borders Canada - check out David Damberger’s TED talk on the subject.
AJE The Stream presents - #African aid: helpful or hazardous?
Does foreign aid to Africa do more harm than good?
Here’s some more TMS Ruge for you - great questions and thoughts on on The Stream.
Given the discussions in the video, what do you guys think?
About 140 million Africans are now on the internet. With half of the population under age 15 and 70 percent of the population under 30, social media is becoming an important feature in the continent’s development path.
Teddy Ruge, lead social media strategist for the World Bank’s Connect4Climate campaign and co-founder of Project Diaspora, an online platform for mobilising members of the African diaspora, calls this Africa’s “renaissance of access to information”.“In 2012, there are about 600 million connected mobile devices in Africa,” he said. “Demographically, we have 300 million on the continent now moving to the middle class who can afford smart phones, laptops, connectivity.
“I look at that in terms of local voices beginning to have a conversation in development. I see this as an opportunity to look at issues of climate change, self- government, economic development and youth employment.”
We <3 Teddy Ruge. (And we agree with him.)
(via dynamicafrica)
