From Colorlines: "When Mindy Budgor was 27 years old, she apparently tried to find meaning in her life by temporarily ditching her wealth in Santa Barbara and jetting over to hang with the poor people of Kenya." Read the full story, and my less than tempered response to yet another…
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When Doing Good Goes Wrong: One Woman’s Story about White Saviorism in Africa
I recently joined the founding team of Africans in the Diaspora (AiD), a new organization that seeks to correct the imbalance of power in African development. But this post isn't really about that organization. I'd like to tell you a story about Lindiwe, an elderly African philanthropist I met on…