News Item: On “The Rise of African Philanthropy”

posted by Bangirana Albert Billy

This article, featured in the Mail & Guardian, by Manqoba Nxumalo is uniquely critical to the upcoming and yet still skewed African philanthro-capitalism. Drawing from the renowned sustainability researcher Glenn Ashton, Nxumalo argues that modern African philanthropy could be a disguised copy of the Western philanthropic model – “a misleading smoke screen for business as usual”.