If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.
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We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.
There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.
It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.
Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
Africa is not for the weak-hearted: infrastructure issues are there. The middle class is absent in most of the countries. We have to cater to the low end of the market to grow.
Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.
What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.