TL;DR: Stop looking at Africa with a colonial gaze
The Washington Post
  • 7 years ago
A Harvard professor's New York Times essay about the Congo River commits the same colonial mistakes as the history it recounts. The Post's Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah says there's no excuse for "ooga-booga journalism."
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