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Andrew Mwenda porte un nouveau regard sur l'Afrique

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Dans cet exposé provocateur, le journaliste Andrew Mwenda nous demande de recadrer la "question africaine" -- de voir au-delà de ce que nous racontent le médias sur la pauvreté, la guerre civile et le désespoir, et de voir les opportunités pour créer de la richesse et du bonheur sur tout le continent.

Journalist Andrew Mwenda has spent his career fighting for free speech and economic empowerment throughout Africa. He argues that aid makes objects of the poor -- they become passive recipients of charity rather than active participants in their own economic betterment. Full bio »

Translated into French by Nicolas Correard
Reviewed by Thomas VANDENBOGAERDE
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