{"id":13536,"date":"2020-02-05T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=13536"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:14","slug":"shifting-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2020\/shifting-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Shifting Perspectives\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/from-away-1200w-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/from-away-1200w-8-400x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/from-away-1200w-8-400x227.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/from-away-1200w-8-160x91.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/from-away-1200w-8-240x136.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/from-away-1200w-8-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/from-away-1200w-8-360x204.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/from-away-1200w-8-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/from-away-1200w-8.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\n\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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