BBC Daily Politics - Dambisa Moyo discusses better solutions to Afrcan aid

The economist Dambisa Moyo and Kumi Naidoo discuss whether aid helps or damages Africa.

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[Craigvadams]

They are intimidated by her energy, bravery, brilliance, and beauty!

by the way I like the book too!

[0Moreno0]

AID dont do shit.

[FikiNom]

Dambisa makes me so proud! She is unfazed! Even BBC's Zainab Badawi was acting like Glenn Beck when she was interviewing her.

Sidenote: If my eyes were closed I would have thought he was a black man from South Africa. I need to check him out but I think he is South African ;)

[43findnemo]

Damn, the interviewer cut off the debate right there after Naidoo's speech about Zimbabwe. Naidoo brought up something interesting. I wonder how moyo would respond to the situation in Zimbabwe. Damn, interviewer!!

[revenantwings7]

That woman is very intelligent

[sadzaNEmuto]

Granted colonialism put Africa on the backfoot but to think that we're going to get reparations is foolishness.Most African countries have been independent for over 2decades but all cries of re-comp have fallen on deaf ears.Does anyone seriously think they give a damn?They're sitting pretty while we beat our gums demanding reparations.We're suffering,not them so we ought to get our bloody act together&be industrious.If they didn't care then,wat the hell makes you think they give a damn now?

[JordanjamesX]

Sonnytheudue makes a good point, Africa is suffering from a "brain drain" the most educated and talented Africans are leaving the African continent for the western world. Maybe, Dambisa Moyo should move back to Zambia and help her people there? Maybe, if more talented, educated, Africans actually stayed on the continent instead of moving to the west things would be better?

[msquestionmark]

she's right. africans need to help themselves. it's so sad seeing all the ghastly conditions they live under. the governments are corrupt and the IMF gives them aid and money which ends up making the leaders rich and doesn't help the people.

[inder19852000]

Africa can develop if it copies the developmental path taken by countries like India and China.Intellectuals in Africa must come forward to influence the policy making of their governments out there.

[tekenareuben]

The entire AID cartel knows that as long as Africa continues to rely on it, the continent will never dismantle the Western economic control over it.

The AID cartel will always financially and military support an African dictatorship that will maintain the global financial status quo. As long as that dictatorship cooperate it is democratic in the eyes of the Western world.

An African govt that rejects aid is labelled as undemocratic and liable to trading sanctions and coups.