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Neither Devil Nor Child

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If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible?

Decades after the colonial powers withdrew Africa is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists withdrew from Asia there followed several decades of sustained and unprecedented growth throughout the continent. So what went wrong in Africa? And are we helping to fix it, or simply making matters worse?

In this provocative analysis, Tom Young argues that so much has been misplaced: our guilt, our policies, and our aid. Human rights have become a cover for imposing our values on others, our shiniest infrastructure projects have fuelled corruption and our interference in domestic politics has further entrenched conflict. Only by radically changing how we think about Africa can we escape this vicious cycle.
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  • yeruomaделится впечатлением6 лет назад
    👍Worth reading

    "Радикальное" мнение, подкреплённое академическими исследованиями, о том, что к независимости африканских государств нужно относиться так же, как к независимости Франции. Не лезть во внутреннюю политику и участвовать в развитии инфраструктуры, а не демократии. Ибо все предыдущие попытки успехом не увенчались.

  • Karan Ralowalделится впечатлением6 лет назад
    💧Soppy

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  • yeruomaцитирует6 лет назад
    difficulty for African societies that they became independent in the late twentieth century when human aspirations everywhere were at historically unprecedented levels, but so also were the technological means to fulfil them. Those same technological means, in the form of modern communications technology, have made the living standards of the prosperous world more and more visible to the rest. It is in this historical context that, in both the poor and the rich worlds, deprivation, particularly of basic physical necessities, has come to be seen as more and more unacceptable.
  • yeruomaцитирует6 лет назад
    underneath these swirling currents and tactical shifts lies a dogged determination to make Africans like us. The damaging
  • yeruomaцитирует6 лет назад
    deal hung on this idea, and attempts were made in the mid-nineteenth century to develop such commerce, especially in the export of oils to supply growing industrial and food markets in Europe. However, this commerce was not only seen to have failed but also, in a cruel paradox, to have renewed slavery within Africa. In some African societies, men of power and influence, now deprived of Atlantic slave markets, turned to local slave labour to produce goods for Western consumption. This wholly unforeseen development prompted the idea that it was not enough to abolish the trade outside Africa;

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