Canada’s “Somali Problem”
Racism against Somali Canadians is a real problem. It is present not only on the right, but the left as well.
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Nicholas Barber
icholas Barber is a doctoral student in Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal.
The Story of Cameroon’s First Metal Band
The mistake of directing the hardline scorn we reserve for say Madonna and Fox News at small independent filmmakers or young volunteers at NGO’s in Africa.
A way out of this miasma
A film about four African artists in Toronto, challenges stereotypes about Africans in Canada’s media capital.
Africa is a Board Game
Players in the board game, “Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa,” are cast in the role of colonists, competing to make the largest imprint on Africa’s “vast wilderness.”
Eggs and omelettes
The existence of African billionaires are not positive evidence of “Africa rising,” but testament to the extreme inequality characterizing economic growth on the continent.
The danger of Africans becoming more “like us”
Discussions of the “shifting disease burden” fail to recognize that in the West diabetes or heart disease are not “diseases of affluence,” but diseases of poverty.
There are more cell phones in Africa than India
For Canada’s Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.