Cesaire's "Discourse on Colonialism" asks us to consider the relationship between capitalism, colonialism and racial discourse. Below are some links to contemporary media coverage about various African humanitarian aid campaigns. Let's think about how these contemporary representations of Africa, its people, landscape as well as its social, political and economic concerns, contributes, extends or complicates Cesaire's argument.
Keep a Child Alive’s “I Am African” Campaign
http://www.keepachildalive.org/i_am_african/i_am_african.html
Vanity Fair “Africa” Issue, guest edited by Bono
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/africa
See especially the article on The (Red) Campaign: “Consumer-Driven Philanthropy”
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/07/lazarus200707?currentPage=1
Celebrity involvement in humanitarian aid.
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