Due Diligence
“If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.” - Teju Cole The construction of Africa exists to satisfy the needs of White people. Whether it be tragic stories of hunger and disease - that White people can pity - or appalling accounts of human rights abuses - which White people are dissociated from - the Western world is there to save the day. White people become the heroes of their own narrative. WorldVision’s campaign, ‘ Walk for Water ’, perfectly depicts this. The Christian NGO compares the lives of two five year olds’ in West Pokot County, Kenya. One boy has access to a nearby well, whilst the other has to walk long journeys with his mother in order to reach an open-surface body of water. Understandably, the child with access to water has been saved by infrastructure that was implemented by WorldVision. The charity depicts a tale in which its White Saviour complex can be inserted. Alarmingly, the campaign mater...