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Shemsi en Tehuti · (#2 (**permalink**))

For the most part, Dambisa Moyo is on point. However, I have a slightly different view...

Is aid killing Afrika? The short answer, I believe, is no. What continues to kill Afrikans in the Continent (and even throughout the Diaspora) is our mentality and perception of ourselves with respect to others. Most of us have adopted white supremacist views about the world in politics, religion, philosophy, technology, law, economics, and nearly all aspects of human behavior. White supremacist ideology has been imposed on the world by Europeans and Arabs every where they have gone in the world. Therefore, it is natural that Europe, America, and most of the world will view "aid," or Afrika's projected need to depend on non-black peoples, as a felicitous condition. It fulfills their notions of white supremacy, in which Afrikan potential remains under the control and thumb of "whites" or countries who are white supremacist in practice (economics, politics, religion, etc.).

So to summarize, "aid" is a mechanism for exerting control. Similar to how welfare programs are typically mechanisms for a respective government to control its poor and disadvantaged by sapping their motivation for self-determination and independence.