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Comic Relief stops sending celebs to Africa after white saviour furore

Comic Relief stops sending celebs to Africa after white saviour furore

SOPHIE DAVIES  BRITISH charity Comic Relief says it will stop sending celebrities to Africa to raise funds following criticism that figures like singer Ed Sheeran acted like "white saviours". The charity won a Norwegian advocacy group's Rusty Radiator Award for the worst appeal of 2017 for a video about street children in Liberia, where Sheeran offered to pay their hotel bills, criticised as "poverty tourism" by the jury. "African people don't want us to tell their stories for them, what they need is more agency, a platform and partnership," comedian Lenny Henry, co-founder of Comic Relief, said in a statement.…
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