[If we can have 3G networks across the world, why can’t we have food? Can we prioritize long-term food security where farmers across the world are on a level playing field?]
Frame Changers #39: Pet Photographers for Africa
Frame Changers #38: Aid, Trade & the African Serenade
[Which engagement model benefits Africa more? At what price? Is development a zero-sum game?]
Frame Changers #37: Research Fatigue
[Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya, is grossly over-researched. Every single day, 20-50 groups of researchers with clipboards and cameras go around asking residents all kinds of intrusive questions. How much of this research actually benefits the communities?]
Frame Changers #36: Placebo or Nocebo
[Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) in which one group gets an experimental drug and others a placebo are common. Although amends to the the Helsinki Declaration have minimized ethical breaches, illnesses like Ebola that don’t have a cure, bring up a host of medical ethics issues. (In Latin, Placebo = I Shall Please and Nocebo = I Shall Harm)]
Frame Changers #35: Poverty of Satisfaction
Frame Changers #34: Africa, Here I Come!
[BTW, mzungu = foreigner or white person in Kiswahili (Technically, mzungu = confused person)]
Frame Changers #33: Blessing or Burden?
[This cartoon is based on an image in a news article on the efficacy of foreign aid. I have not been able to locate the article again and hence can’t acknowledge the photographer.]
Frame Changers #32: SUVs, Firewood and Sustainability Hypocrisy
Frame Changers #31: Poverty Begins at Home
[Over 15% of Americans live in poverty. Racial and ethnic minorities, women, children, and families headed by single women are particularly vulnerable to poverty.]