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Zoe Norridge ask why photos of Africa fix perceptions of the continent at its worst times.

Zoe Norridge questions why photographs of Africa tend to fix our perceptions of the continent at its worst moments of destruction and despair.

A week of essays from five of the BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers continues with an examination of the images of the Rwandan genocide. 

Zoe Norridge, lecturer in literature at the University of York, questions why photographs of Africa tend to fix our perceptions of the continent at its worst moments of destruction and despair. New Generation Thinker Zoe Norridge examines how some photographers working in Rwanda confirm international expectations whilst others are beginning to look beyond the genocide.

The New Generation Thinkers are winners of the inaugural talent scheme run the BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into fascinating broadcasts. 

In the final programme tomorrow Jon Adams questions how modern day writers are borrowing skills from the theologians of old.

Producer Jennifer Chevalier.

The Essay: New Generation Thinkers

2011

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Series of essays read by some of the BBC's New Generation Thinkers

Series of essays read by some of the BBC's New Generation Thinkers - comprising the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities

Essays read by five of the 2011 intake of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers

Essays by five of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, winners of the inaugural talent scheme run by Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academics in the arts

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