Film Review: Sisters of Somalia
Sisters of Somalia was filmed during Ramadan 2012, a time I was also in Mogadishu. The images matched what I saw in the city. The film […]
Problematic Representations
An exploration of how Africans are represented in international media and by international and transnational organizations.
Invisible Children: Giving American Youth a Raison D’Etre
Ayesha Nibbe
Almost nine months after the release of KONY 2012, Joseph Kony is a distant memory for most of the original 100+ million viewers of the historic viral video. The […]
Frost interviews Archbishop Desmond Tutu; “Africa for Norway”; and more news
“Desmond Tutu: Not Going Quietly”
In this video piece, originally posted on Aljazeera, Sir David Frost interviews Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who speaks about his role in the anti-apartheid struggle in […]
Film Review: Why “The Dark Side of Chocolate” is a Useful but Insufficient Resource on the Ethics of Cocoa
Elizabeth A. Bennett
The Dark Side of Chocolate wants to know if your chocolate has a bitter taste. It encourages you to recall “rumors” about child labor and trafficking on […]
Experiences of a Former General of the Civil Defense Forces: Humanitarian Issues in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Then and Now
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dear Readers, the below is the second post of a three-part series on the moral economy of resource extraction, with its attendant violent commodification of people’s lives. In […]
Youth, Labor, and Violence: The Production of Humanitarian Crises in Sierra Leone and Liberia
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dear Readers, the below is the first post of a three-part series on the moral economy of resource extraction, with its attendant violent commodification of people’s lives. In […]
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 […]