I think we should be doing business with them. I don’t believe in aid because it has been proven for the last 50 years that it doesn’t work. But trade. Invest in Africa. Let Africans change their own destiny. I lived in Kenya for a long time, and when a mass uprising expressed in the form of demonstrations comes about against the government, the government then violently puts that down. Now a number of the Africans that I spoke to and knew at the time would say if Daniel Radmore did not have all this money that he is getting from Britain and other western countries in aid, he would not be able to buy the weapons to crash us. But in many African countries, because of aid, the authoritarian figures there can afford to get the weapons and the money to oppress their own people. That’s an issue that aid workers simply don’t want to deal with, and I think it’s a shame.
Recorded on: 8/15/07
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Wojtek Wacowski on January 10, 2008, 3:00 PM
Very interesting point of view.
Wojtek Wacowski on January 10, 2008, 8:00 PM
Very interesting point of view.
Paulina Varshavskaya on January 16, 2008, 11:11 AM
What about the kind of aid that goes straight to a community or a group of people, bypassing the government?
Paulina Varshavskaya on January 16, 2008, 4:11 PM
What about the kind of aid that goes straight to a community or a group of people, bypassing the government?
Alexander Marsh Nikias on January 19, 2008, 12:35 PM
Short-term aid in regions or countries where there is an immediate need (i.e. famines, humanitarian disasters, etc) is extremely important, but I do not believe aid is a long-term solution to ending poverty in Africa.
Alexander Marsh Nikias on January 19, 2008, 5:35 PM
Short-term aid in regions or countries where there is an immediate need (i.e. famines, humanitarian disasters, etc) is extremely important, but I do not believe aid is a long-term solution to ending poverty in Africa.
Lisa Del Gallo on February 21, 2008, 10:20 AM
I think that aid should come in the form of education and health professionals. This way you can empower the people to solve their own problems. For instance, if you sent people to teach the women in the Darfur refugee camps self-defence then you could cut down the number of rapes. If you send over people to teach them construction they could rebuild the refugee camps into new communities. This last example will help the refugees regain a sense of community, pride, and stability. It also will eliminate the problem of having to rebuild and move all these people back to their original communities and having to take care of them in the mean time.
Lisa Del Gallo on February 21, 2008, 3:20 PM
I think that aid should come in the form of education and health professionals. This way you can empower the people to solve their own problems. For instance, if you sent people to teach the women in the Darfur refugee camps self-defence then you could cut down the number of rapes. If you send over people to teach them construction they could rebuild the refugee camps into new communities. This last example will help the refugees regain a sense of community, pride, and stability. It also will eliminate the problem of having to rebuild and move all these people back to their original communities and having to take care of them in the mean time.
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