Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian economist who has written an important book about a subject that many African thinkers have been discussing for a long time, namely: so called development aid has been devastating to Africa, by causing dependency and preventing real prosperity.
Kenyan intellectual Binyawanga Wainaina, a Kenyan intellectual has also articulated this topic very effectively. Moyo, herself a former World Bank official, reserves most of her dissaproval for the kind of aid that the World Bank traditionally provides: huge loans for massive projects that never seem to achieve their aim.
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