Learning from Kony 2012 (Part 3 of 4)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please check out our four contributions to In the News, following on the controversy surrounding Kony 2012. They include practical suggestions for Westerners involved in aid work […]
Humanitarianism, Charity and Development
Examinations of humanitarianism, charity, and development in Africa, whether from NGOs operating on the continent, foreign aid from outside of Africa, or philanthropists based anywhere in the world.
Learning from Kony 2012 (Part 1 of 4)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please check out our four contributions to In the News, following on the controversy surrounding Kony 2012. They include practical suggestions for Westerners involved in aid work […]
What’s Wrong with the Kony 2012 Campaign? (Original Post)
(Editor’s Note: Go here for the updated version of this post)
By Adam Branch, Makerere Institute of Social Research
March 8, 2012
Kampala, Uganda
From Kampala, the Kony 2012 hysteria is easy to […]
What it Means to Care
Introduction to Kathryn Mathers’ article, “Mr. Kristof, I Presume? Saving Africa in the footsteps of Nicholas Kristof”
by Laura Mitchell
Anthropologist Kathryn Mathers’ comments (in her post below and
What’s Wrong with the Kony 2012 Campaign
Editor’s Note: We at The CIHA Blog thank you for your interest in our post critiquing the Kony 2012 campaign, which has received thousands of hits and was also picked […]
Dignity in Development
By Duncan McNicholl
Last year, I began the Perspectives of Poverty photography project to demonstrate how carefully constructed images can lead us to very different conclusions about someone living […]
The Great Aid Debate
Part I: The Great Aid Debate: From radicals to reformers to radical-reformers
By Nilima Gulrajani
The debate over foreign aid is increasingly polarized between those who radically denounce aid as a vehicle […]
Debating Aid and the African Renaissance
Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (2009). New York: Basic Civitas Books.