CFR - Dambisa Moyo on African aid dependency and entrepreneurship

[ogaal83]

Aid stunts growth in Africa. Aid propagates corruption and misrule. It hinders the people's innovation, skills, hard work, and creates a culture of dependancy and cronyism. The availability of "free" money has reduced African farming from what it was nearly 40 years ago, the increased flow of aid money has severely limited entreprenuership. No country has ever developed on aid nor is it a sustainable source of income. Aid is used to buy weapons, create ethnic division, enpower dictators, etc.

[enyawix]

I think Africa need more intelligent people. Soon as someone gets educated in Africa they move away. We need to bring talent to Africa.

[ComatoseRain]

@enyawix or just help educate the people there

[enyawix]

@ComatoseRain

Ghana has some good schools. How do we keep talent in Africa?

[Plutonwolf]

All Aid to any country that is flat on its back is nothing more to them than handing a bottle of 151 Rum to an alcoholic unless it comes with strings. One of the best strings is one that is NEVER attached. That is the string that will be used to tie off the torrent of babies that will flood the land in 15 years with dispossed and bitter youths who make PERFECT recruits for every war lord and despot looking for fresh meat. Come on people, wake up and demand this bit of sanity!!!