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Only 8 Goals Away

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Feel a little bit better about development aid with this fabulous video about the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. Practicality of the MDGs aside, this is a really wonderful clip. How many of the singers can you identify? I’ll start you off with Angelique Kidjo and my girl Yvonne Chaka Chaka.

 

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Keena Seyfarth

Keena Seyfarth is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, getting a combination Masters degree in International Health and Humanitarian Assistance at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and International Development and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. She has lived much of her life in rural Africa, and traveled extensively through southern and eastern Africa. She recently returned from six months in Ethiopia, where she worked for the public hospital system.