“ Are they not simply comics? ” Massimo Repetti wondered and closed his essay about comics from Africa back in 2007. Although the excerpt meant to discuss the place of African comics’ production globally, it has at least one more reading. As we will end up seeing its notion is…
Let’s talk about development. No, let’s talk about blogging instead. Hmmm, let’s talk about the development of blogs. That doesn’t make sense. What about blogging about development then? Yeah, yeah, that’s it. “Look at that fancy hipster blog, tsk tsk tsk..” said the Formal Publication to Official Communication When…
Football nowadays seems to have taken a debatable and obscure path. On one hand, football teams have grown in power and recognition while (some) footballers have reached unprecedented heights of fame as they identified and compared to gods, while they are also paid as such. On the other hand,…
Negasi shares her journey into C4D and how the impact of digital communication can make a difference
A view over the Himalayas in Nepal.I characterise my journey into Communication for Development like a river rushing out of the Himalayas, it’s non-linear, can be intense and reflective at different moments and overall truly transformative. My early career began as a community development worker, primarily with homeless youth and…
Here are some key posts from our Twitter feed the past two days: Is ISIS prepared to announce something big? Big announcement coming out of many #IS channels, apparently new upcoming statement from leadership pic.twitter.com/Owq4XvWZzg — Michael Krona (@GlobalMedia_) September 28, 2017 Refugees in Italy in need of the…
From the very start of my academic studies, I felt that something was quite ‘wrong’. If being honest, I, probably, felt that something I was doing was way out of what I really was, ideologically speaking at least. Although I realized the paradox from the very beginning, I kept doing…
When you hear the term “communication for development”, what comes first to your mind? A group of local villagers sitting in the circle somewhere in Africa listening to the Western-looking aid worker? Or you start thinking of one of the large-scale PR campaigns UN is doing worldwide? Both are right,…