Tag Archives: Africa

Dec 13 2012

What is the point of studying at the LSE when my friends are being killed at home? (Guest blog)

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This week we were able to give a small but vital Silverstone Scholarship grant to one of our MSc students, Eman Eltigani, a journalist from Sudan. She was thrilled to get the financial support, but bad news from her homeland … Continue reading →

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Nov 30 2012

Filming Africa Differently – Jamal Osman at Polis, LSE next Tuesday Dec 4th

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What’s it like to be an African journalist in Britain making films about Africa? Somalian-born Jamal Osman is an outstanding journalist and a brilliant film-maker who creates work that reveals but also challenges the viewer. He’s the next speaker in … Continue reading →

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Mar 9 2012

Why I think the Kony 2012 Campaign Is Wrong

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Posted in: Development, Media

I think the Kony12 campaign is wrong. It is wrong in content, tactics, strategy, ethics and politics. The Invisible Children organisation may well be doing some good work in East Africa, but this media effort is wrong. And it’s not … Continue reading →

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Mar 8 2012

In Defence of the #Kony12 Campaign (guest blog)

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Posted in: Development, International, Media

The Invisible Children Kony campaign has succeeded in one important thing. It has sparked a global debate about the best way to mobilise support for human rights action. With brilliant use of film and online social networks it has created … Continue reading →

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Jan 18 2012

Who Is To Blame When Africa Starves: media, governments or NGOs?

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Posted in: Development, International

A report from Oxfam and Save The Children on the East African food crisis shows that thousands of lives could have been saved if aid organisations had acted earlier. This was not a sudden disaster and yet not enough was … Continue reading →

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Sep 15 2011

The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development (conference notes)

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Posted in: Development, International, Media, Politics

You don’t usually get this many smart suits at a development conference, but Indigo Trust‘s The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development at trendy Kings Place was seeking to bring together money, technology and the developing world. … Continue reading →

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Jun 16 2011

A Virtual Civil Society?

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If you walk down the corridors of most development organisations you will see the words ‘civil society’ on many of the name-plates screwed to the office doors. Comforting words engraved on nice solid plaques. But what does it mean? This … Continue reading →

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May 16 2011

Social media and democratic governance: the next decade (Wilton Park paper)

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These are the notes for a presentation I gave as part of the Wilton Park conference on ‘media, social media and democratic governance’. This has been an extraordinary period for news and also for the way that news is created … Continue reading →

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Apr 13 2011

Europe’s double-standards on freedom for Libya (guest-blog)

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The intervention in Libya has been portrayed in Europe as part of Western support for emerging democracies in north Africa and the Middle East. Yet, are there double-standards at work when it comes to dealing with one consequence of political … Continue reading →

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Feb 9 2011

Why don’t people act when they know about suffering? (guest-blog)

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Thanks to modern media everyone in Britain knows that there are people suffering from famine, war and deprivation around the world. From Haiti to Australia they are shown the suffering – so why don’t they do anything? “It is striking … Continue reading →

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