• I dream of the day when these, the African mathematicians and computer specialists in Washington and New York, the African physicists, engineers, doctors, business managers and economists, will return from London and Manchester and Paris and Brussels to add to the African pool of brain power, to enquire into and find solutions to Africa's problems and challenges, to open the African door to the world of knowledge, to elevate Africa's place within the universe of research the information of new knowledge, education and information -Thambo Mbeki, former South African President
  • They therefore concluded that “the findings of this (and other) surveys indicate that coverage of Africa, by the leading sources of American media is, at best, dismissive of the continent’s progress and potential, and thus leading to continued ‘exotification’ and marginalization of the African continent. At worst, coverage disregards recent trends toward democratization, thus betraying an almost contemptuous lack of interest in the potential and progress being achieved on the continent.”

Above excerpt is from a writer: Gbemisola Olujobi

  • By Gbemisola Olujobi - The Africa You Need to Know - Posted on Nov 28, 2006 See Full Article above

Why is the African image so negative?

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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Dead Aid

This is the Title of a much sort after book authored by Dambisa Moyo - a Zambian academic who has a PhD in Economics, studied at Harvard and Oxford. She also has work experience from The World Bank as well as Goldman Sachs.

The book's sub-title tells "How and Why Aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa".

This I would love to read. May be hearing it from an African Expert's point of view is different. As we all know, there are way too few experts from the continent about the continent. There are always Western Experts who know Africa best.

Is that why the Aid is dead?
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