Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
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.
If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.
If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.
The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.
Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.
The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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.
No opposing quotes found.