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 Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg Questioning the ‘new’ philanthropy

My favourite part:

The the element I talked about in “new-philanthropy” is the democratizating of philanthropy … One no longer needs experience , training or personal contact with Africans . All you need is a passion Africans who are suffering , that passion for suffering Africans  is enough!…And that passion , how is that generated and kept alive ? By the increasingly garish images of suffering Africans as portrayed in specific ways. In order to keep that passion alive, in order to keep Joe Blow interested and to keep tugging at those heart strings , you have to have a certain picture …all African women are oppressed, circumcised with broken glass bottles at really young ages, they then proceed to give birth to dead and dying babies in the bush hundred of miles from the nearest hospital, send help now…And this is problematic…