gurlgoestoafrica:

A short video of a Peace Corps volunteer who worked in Lesotho. Really interesting. Thanks, ktrendon!

This is a really thought-provoking tumblr. Seeing as we’re a group of privileged college students attending an elite, private liberal arts college, there’s a lot of colonial implications about my upcoming trip to Ghana and it makes me wonder, how does one, as an American, travel to different countries and truly experience them without judgment: without imposing Western concepts of development of progress, without viewing communities as “underprivileged” and “impoverished”, without using terminology implying that Global South countries are inferior to Global North countries, i.e: third world, developing, etc.

Some more interesting links:

http://www.granta.com/Magazine/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1

http://arafiqui.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/how-to-photograph-africa-or-thank-goodness-for-a-semblance-of-intelligence/

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    The right way to volunteer: Stop, listen, and find out what people actually want. Don’t go
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    This is a really thought-provoking tumblr. Seeing as we’re a group...privileged college...
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    Couldn’t have said it better myself....Westerners go to third world countries
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    “That’s when I realized that the beauty...Africa is not what we can do for it, but what it...
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    … “the need to get ahead, to conquer, to solve and to fix”…
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    “What we want for them is not the same as what they want for themselves”. Worthwhile watching.
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