Uganda’s Andrew Mwenda was at TED this year. The video was a gold find as he clearly touches on a few key points on African Aid that we’ve written about here at Project Diaspora. He lays the smack down on what’s wrong with the African Aid model – much to the chagrin of Bono, who was in attendance . Of specific interest is the budget/expenditure structure of a good number of African governments. Uganda, for example spends 110% of it’s annual budget! Why? So that the world bank can pick up the shortfall. We touched on a lot of these issues here and here. Something’s afoot in the African jungle, and that something is knowledge. We need more of this realization for people to wake up.
Andrew Mwenda Takes a New Look at African Aid
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