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WHY INTERNATIONAL FUNDERS WILL FIGHT AIDS BUT IGNORE MALARIA, WHY UGANDA NEEDS INVESTMENT AND ACCESS TO CAPITAL INSTEAD OF AID, HOW INVESTING IN KIHEFO CAN EARN YOU MONEY WHILE FUNDING KIHEFO’S MEDICAL WORK LISTEN/DOWNLOAD How many times have you seen pictures of so-called development workers, who heroically and selflessly leave their privileged homes in the West to travel to any one of 54 countries on the African continent—although they’ll usually just say “Africa” as if it were a country? They go to build houses or schools or work in a clinic, sometimes saying that they’re there to “save” people or even “save Africa,” all one billion of us, despite what is usually zero knowledge of any of the continent’s 3000 or more languages, more than 5000 years of civilisations and ancient literatures, its countless cultures, religions, and philosophies, or its contemporary arts, industry, and politics. They also usually do not question why, in the case of the often barely-qualified...

On the previous episode, we heard all about the controversial Bradford Reading Challenge . It shouldn’t be controversial at all, of course. Author, tech-reviewer, and fandom activist K. Tempest Bradford suggested in an xoJane.com opinion piece that readers should branch out beyond the extremely typical, self-imposed restriction of straight, White, able-bodied, and presumably English-speaking male authors. That’s right: thanks to the educational and media systems and cultures of Canada and the United States, that author category is default for way, way, way too many readers. So how about, said Bradford, for one year, open up your minds and eyes to encounter the whole universe of writers beyond? To hear all about the outrageous and even vicious backlash Bradford got for suggesting people read books to make themselves happy, download episode 18 of MFGALAXY from iTunes. But tonight, let’s pick up the Bradford Reading Challenge ourselves, and hear suggestions from: Canada Reads host...