Fahamu (Oxford)
10 October 2008
While underlining Canadian people's best intentions for the African continent, Gerald Caplan argues that his country and the rest of the Western world should understand that many existing practices around trade, aid, lending, investment, and recruiting in relation to Africa cause far more harm than good. Without an approach that goes beyond mere compassionate humanitarianism, the author stresses ...
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Excellent piece. Perhaps as the world increasingly favours truth over hypocrisy the future of retributions and recriminations can be averted. (It might be possible). In the meantime, hopefully the poisonous obesity-inducing and plagues worse than AIDS stance of "Africa as the world's food basket" bringing cheap GM foods to a supermarket near you, will be consigned to the dustbin where it belongs.