About the only African aid project I’ve heard of that sounded like it would work were the little ones with an income coming from it, small loans to buy a woman a sewing machine and material to get her started for example, manageable projects that motivated individuals can utilize to enrich their family, leading to small incremental growth among the larger group. This household has a little income and that household has a little income and capitalism slowly starts creating buying and selling within that group.
Africans don’t seem to have a sense of cooperation or of the future so big projects end up just contributing to the corruption and a temporary distribution of whatever monies flow through it, which is why all the infrastructure of colonialism from roads and trains didn’t last, giving them golden gooses doesn’t help because they feast on it that night but giving individuals little personalized golden gooses may help build a structure and bring market concepts to the remote populations.
It could just be that they will never be able to build complex societies and that it will always be a few wealthy, a few servants, and a lot of not very intelligent lazy day to day people satisfied with scratching out a living and taking a handout or an easy steal when they can get it.
A lot of nations of the world have large black populations, do they all look similar, and do they all seem similar to Africa.
About the only African aid project I’ve heard of that sounded like it would work were the little ones with an income coming from it, small loans to buy a woman a sewing machine and material to get her started for example, manageable projects that motivated individuals can utilize to enrich their family, leading to small incremental growth among the larger group. This household has a little income and that household has a little income and capitalism slowly starts creating buying and selling within that group.
You were told a story, just not the rest of the story.
I once read an article about a group of tourists who visited a town in central Africa. The town had no electricity, but was near a large waterfall. An engineer in the group realized that a turbine placed under the waterfall would generate enough electricity for the entire town.
So the group raised money for a turbine. It never made it to the town. From the moment the turbine landed on the coast, local officials were demanding “transit fees” (bribes) to let the turbine pass.
The group payed the first fee. And then they paid another fee a little further on down the road. And then another. Eventually the group ran out of money. The turbine was abandoned on the side of a road.