Plebble on Nostr: I certainly am not going to disagree on front line assistance requirements to ...

I certainly am not going to disagree on front line assistance requirements to alleviate suffering. It would be pretty inhuman to do so. However there is a lot more nuance to the situation. I don’t come at this topic lightly having spent a lot of time both working and travelling various parts of Africa and spending time talking with people working front line in various places. Am wracking brain trying to remember the names of a couple of extremely well written books on the topic but am failing and search fail too. There are some great Congolese and South African authors who I feel deal with the topic well but it’s been such a long bloody time I can’t for the life of me remember names. The immediate needs are obvious but does aid dependency help long term? I hope that this USAID discussion flare up results in a more educated discussion on the manner that such a beautiful and rich continent gets so abused