Our teacher showed my fellow history master’s students and me a documentary on YouTube about famine in Africa: starving children, powerless aid organizations. We have already talked about green revolution and colonization to explain how famines can still occur today. We should look away from intense film images if we couldn’t handle it, our teacher said. And there it came, twice in fact. We couldn’t click away, because we watched the documentary without paying: Fresh package of pumpkin risottoadvertising from Albert Heijn.
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