Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)
This group is for funders, their grantee partners, CSO networks and their members and individual organizations working throughout Sub Saharan Africa. Use this group to discuss issues of shared concern, share opportunities for collaboration and support.
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Opinion: Why we’ve stopped using the term ‘sub-Saharan Africa’
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As African development workers based in Tanzania and Zimbabwe, we’ve been using the expression “sub-Saharan Africa” ourselves for years. Yet it makes no geographic sense, contributes to reinforcing stereotypes, and plays a role in perpetuating post-colonialist patterns of oppression in global development — so we’ve stopped using it.
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