SERVIÇO PÚBLICO: A ajuda ocidental a África vista por um africano

«I am Tanzanian.

China is not helping Africa. China is trading with Africa, and sometimes investing in Africa.

“Helping” is what Westerners pretend to do. But we know what their game plan actually is. It’s far from helping.

Westerners donate inconsequential amounts to fund things like “democracy”, “human rights”, “women empowerment”, “education”, “health”, “wars” etc. Things which have little impact to development, and are not sustainable (ie they don’t make money) so they’ll help Westerners create the myth of perpetual Africa aid.

The real deal in terms of economic development is industrialization, and not human rights, democracy, women empowerment, etc. Little things like those take care of themselves once there’s industrialization and the money is flowing in.

Western aid is mainly two things:

(If given directly to govt) A bribe to buy influence and certain leeways in Western extraction of Africa wealth.

(If done by NGO’s and charities) just a way for Westerners to milk their fellows in the West to fund their lavish lifestyles.

The West is also very big on war mongering, assassination of African leaders (you are Belgian so you should know what you did to Patrice Lumumba), meddling in African politics, creating wars, etc. The West generally has ill-will toward Africa and thinks of Africa as colonial land to date.»

Excerto de um post do tanzaniano Dar Milli publicado há dias no Quora, denunciando e bem o lirismo ditado pela má consciência, na melhor hipótese, ou o cinismo ditado pela realpolitik, na pior, da "ajuda" ocidental a África. No resto do post, Dar Milli descreve o papel da China em África, sem a clarividência e visão crítica que mostra em relação ao do Ocidente.