Donkeys provide vital support to women but their lives are often cut short.
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Charity advertising often reinforces historical stereotypes of underdevelopment that equate Africa with poverty.
His photos and videos depicting postcolonialism and everyday life in Africa have been overlooked.
The international response to the refugee crisis in Ukraine has been impressive. But humanitarian aid is falling short to help refugees in other countries such as Bangladesh, Yemen and Ethiopia.
To avoid a repeat of one of the worst humanitarian crises of recent times, Ethiopia needs all-inclusive national dialogue.
Africa needs to embrace a new approach that focuses on what countries in an embattled region – as a ‘community’ of regional states – can do to intervene.
One of the least recognised aspects of Germaine Greer’s professional life is her international career as a journalist. It spans reportage in Vietnam and Ethiopia and interviews with figures such as Primo Levi.
The western media’s focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine that’s unfolding in Africa.
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Reader in the Anthropology of Africa and Law, SOAS, University of London
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Honorary research associate, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer at Journalism and Global Communication, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida
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Associate Professor and Director of Research Communication in the School of Global Development, University of East Anglia
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Senior Professorial Lecturer of Global Governance, Politics and Security, American University School of International Service
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Climate Scientist and Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Systems, Georgia State University
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PhD Candidate in Journalism, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Warwick