{"id":13536,"date":"2020-02-05T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=13536"},"modified":"2020-02-05T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:30:45","slug":"shifting-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2020\/shifting-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-away-1200w-8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13537 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-away-1200w-8-400x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-away-1200w-8-400x227.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-away-1200w-8-160x91.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-away-1200w-8-240x136.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-away-1200w-8-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-away-1200w-8-360x204.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-away-1200w-8-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/from-away-1200w-8.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Before coming to Carleton as a graduate student, Akintunde Akinleye was a photographer with Reuters in his native Nigeria, helping people understand the country through powerful images such as this World Press Photo prize-winning shot of a man rinsing soot from his face after a deadly pipeline explosion on the outskirts of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Read his story in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ravenmag\/story\/diversity-from-away\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ravens Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before coming to Carleton as a graduate student, Akintunde Akinleye was a photographer with Reuters in his native Nigeria, helping people understand the country through powerful images such as this World Press Photo prize-winning shot of a man rinsing soot from his face after a deadly pipeline explosion on the outskirts of Lagos. 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