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It’s a beautiful thing that people want to help make the world a better place. But isn’t it a little odd that so many of those people only want to “make the world better” in Africa?

Erica Williams Simon

Jun 27, 2014

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It’s really cool that you studied abroad in Africa. But the way you talk about it? Not so cool.

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