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Posts highlighting both problematic and helpful examples of humanitarianism in Africa.

What’s Wrong with the Kony 2012 Campaign? (Original Post)

March 11, 2012 2

(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’s Wrong with the Kony 2012 Campaign

March 8, 2012 62

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 […]

In the News: The “Emergency Imaginary,” Somalia, and Representations of Africa

September 21, 2011 1

Dear Readers,

We at The CIHA Blog have been paying close attention to the discourse surrounding the causes, consequences, and images of the current famine in the Horn of Africa. Once […]

Dignity in Development

March 14, 2011 2

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 […]

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