In the News: “Reductive Seduction” in Creating Meaning from Others’ Lives
One of the issues that The CIHA Blog contends with is the problematic argument that people are just trying to “do good,” that their motives are genuine, that any problem […]
The Humanitarian Misunderstanding
Reconceptualizing Charity: The Problem with Philanthropy and “Effective Altruism” by the World’s Wealthiest People
by Cecelia Lynch
As 2015 drew to a close, my inbox became more and more crowded with requests for donations from religious and non-religious groups, begging anew a central question posed […]
In the News: The Human-Rights Ideology and its Limits–The Urgency of African Agency
by Cilas Kemedjio
On January 10, 2011, a Cameroonian newspaper reported a grant of 300,000 euros (about US $350 million at the time) made by the European Union to three Cameroonian […]
Re-framing Representations of Aid
by Kathryn Mathers
When FRAMED, a documentary film in the making about the relationship between aid and Africa, ran its successful Kickstarter campaign over the summer 2014, we were thrilled to […]
International Aid: Western Paternalism or a Moral Imperative?
Dear Readers: While we at the CIHA blog tend to be critical of aspects of humanitarianism and aid in Africa we also recognize its endurance as well as the goodwill […]