Name: Aid for Africa? No thanks.
Uploaded: 2007-09-04T05:37:00Z
Duration: 16 min 54 s
Description: In this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the "African question" -- to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent.

In this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the "African question" -- to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent.

Andrew Mwenda: Aid for Africa? No thanks.

Aid for Africa? No thanks.

Massive foreign aid to Africa, argued as a solution, often worsens dependency rather than fostering economic independence.

A shift from aid reliance to empowering African entrepreneurship could turn the tide towards sustainable wealth creation.

Africa's portrayal in Western media as a continent of despair skews aid approaches, favoring charity over sustainable wealth creation.