The starving child. Unwanted logo of Africa

Opinion March 11, 2013

Last year we created some fun and discussion with our video, Africa for Norway. Instead of the usual picture of Westerners helping starving Africans, the video showed African youth collecting radiators for freezing Norwegians in the North. We copied the well-trodden “We are the world” model and set the video to original music.

Sindre Olav Edland-Gryt is Information Advisor and Campaigner at the Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH).

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