Posts Tagged ‘poverty tourism’
A powerful voice on “slum tourism”
If you haven’t read this op-ed in today’s NYT yet, it is an absolute must read. You might not agree with him, but Kennedy Odede, from Kibera, makes writes powerfully and beautifully about what it’s like to be looked at on a slum tour.
Poorism vs. Tourism: A photographer's take
Hop over to Scarlett Lion’s blog and read today’s Context Africa piece, about photographer Samantha Reinders. She’s been photographing Township Tourism in South Africa since 2004. Among other things, she points out that this kind of tourism isn’t static: I have seen the industry at large, as well as the actual tours, change for the [...]
On paying money to look at poor people
In a moment of serendipity, I published an article this week at the Christian Science Monitor at exactly the same time its topic, poverty tourism, became a hot debate on Bill Easterly’s blog and at Huffington Post. The controversy started when Magatte Wade, a Senegalese entrepreneur, penned a long piece objecting to a tour that’s [...]
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