drowninghere wrote:Anyone got a quality link for this type of argument (the best I could find was the general idea of 'flooding Africa with western aid'). I suspect I wildly disagree with it, but I'm interested in understanding an intelligent argument in its favour.
Bono isn't
particular to this critique, rather he's a face on the failing western aid model of, er, aid to Africa. Here's one discussion between some activists and experts on the issue:
http://www.how-matters.org/2011/04/22/a ... lonialism/
Dambisa Moyo has done good work cataloging the problems with the current western aid strategy, even though I disagree substantively with some of her proposed solutions. She has a book on the subject, but here's an article that gives a taste of her argument:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123758895999200083.html
Melanie over at Broadsnark has written once or twice on the issue of Western aid to Africa. While this particular piece deals with the Kony video, I think her takeaways apply more broadly to the Western-Aid-Industrial-Complex in general (and shade at what I think are the preferable alternative goals of dismantling - not entrenching - government power in Africa and elsewhere):
http://www.broadsnark.com/kony-and-the- ... -advocacy/
For some more specifics on what that alternative vision of how to improve the lives of Africans and empower them without resorting to supporting corrupt regimes or western supremacy, check
this and
this out.
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