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Jul 6, 2016 · Louise Linton, an actress and producer, just may have written the defining work of the White-Savior-in-Africa genre for the digital age. Linton’s piece, “How My Dream Gap Year in Africa Turned ...
- Karen Attiah
Washington Post editor Karen Attiah wrote that Linton “may have written the defining work of the White-Savior-in-Africa genre for the digital age… she deploys, with maximum flourish, just ...
Jul 5, 2016 · Africans are outraged by this “white savior” memoir by an actress who spent a gap year in Zambia. Not Louise Linton’s Zambia. When Louise Linton went to Zambia in 1999, at the age of 18, she ...
Jul 5, 2016 · Posted onJuly 5, 2016, 1:06 am. The Daily Telegraph published an excerpt of a memoir about a woman's time spent volunteering in Zambia as a teenager. Louise Linton wrote about caring for an HIV-positive orphan and hiding out from murderous rebels. Sounds terrifying — except people say her story doesn't add up.
- Buzzfeed Founding Editor, Canada
Jul 6, 2016 · In the Washington Post, Karen Attiah writes that Linton “may have written the defining work of the White-Savior-in-Africa genre for the digital age…. she deploys, with maximum flourish, just ...
Jul 6, 2016 · The Twitter storm broke out after excerpts of the book, In Congo's Shadow, written by Louise Linton, were published on July 1 in the British newspaper The Telegraph. The hashtag being used is # ...
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Aug 22, 2017 · Louise Linton, the wife of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin and author of a controversial self-published 2016 memoir about her experiences volunteering in Africa, is drawing fire over her ...
