I spent the summer of 2007 teaching at Wikondiek Primary and Secondary School in rural Western Kenya. As this was not my first time in Africa, I was able to see to an even greater extent some of the difficulties with constructing a Western-based “meaning” out of the experience, and this led me to do some serious questioning and reflecting on the ways in which our interactions with Africa are based on an inherent unequal dynamic that affects how we from the West evaluate and benefit from our experiences there, sometimes – I would dare to say usually – at the expense of the communities we are claiming to assist.
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“Valencia, Barcelona, Prague, Córdoba, Sevilla, Pamplona, Madrid, Toledo, Lisboa, Fátima, Canary Islands, Ronda, Málaga, Paris, Budapest, London, Bratislava…” This may sound like a travel agent’s list of European hot spots, but these are actually the places I have visited during and after my York International Internship Program (YIIP).