Africa: #NoWhiteSaviours - the White Saviour Complex

Kelsey Nielsen and Ugandan Olivia Alaso have launched the "No White Saviours" campaign to challenge the way in which development and evangelical work is being done on the African continent. They aim to highlight the underlying discrimination in development narratives and the relationship between races.

The conversation about the "white saviour complex" was revived earlier this year after the English television presenter and documentary film maker Stacey Dooley posted pictures on Instagram of local women dancing and the children she had met while filming a series of documentaries about neonatal clinics and malaria with the charity Comic Relief.

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