Rhinos, Rwanda, and the Righteous Outsider : Kagame, Conservation, and the Western Gaze

The first time I saw Ed Stoddard’s name in my inbox, it was attached to an article already going viral for all the wrong reasons. His June 11, 2025 piece in Daily Maverick struck me not as a dispatch from a thoughtful journalist, but as a familiar Western lament cloaked in righteous indignation. (…)