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The concerns of African photographers 0

The concerns of African photographers

The World Press Photo Foundation recently announced the participants selected for the 2018 Joop Swart Masterclass. It is the foundation’s flagship education programme that « rewards the most talented emerging visual journalists and is designed to support and enhance diversity in visual journalism and storytelling ». This year, far more women were selected, and that alone must…

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Wakanda is no longer African, and that’s OK

The fictional country of Wakanda is, at least according to the comic book history, located somewhere in real life Turkana, the largest and also poorest of Kenya’s 47 counties. I happened to be in Turkana the day Black Panther was officially released in Kenya at a relatively low-key event at the cinema in Kisumu, hometown…