Fed-up with no education: Africa’s age-old problem

Food aid should not be sent to Africa, it’s a waste and will only lead to further problems. I’m baffled by the amount money donated to African charities by profile-raising celebrities and “no-strings-attached” countries. Logic has it that more money means more food means less starvation. Why is the ship still sinking? Why are people still going hungry, and the bread line still getting longer? I refer you to an article by The Times (UK): http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6886167.ece. This article is spot on. There is no doubt that blindly feeding corrupt countries like horses, is doing them no good – never mind that most of the money reaches only as far as the back pocket of a beaurocratic Congolese official before it miraculously turns into a Russian pistol. Where does this age-old problem lay hidden? In education. But how do we educate the uneducated in order for them to be able to educate the masses? Firstly, black-cat corporations who are capitalist driven selfish “entrepreneurs” must stop the exploitation that they are consciously doing. Loaning money, investing in oil and providing charitable aid is not helping poverty stricken countries. What would help is if these investors, instead of thinking of the next diamond they are going to buy for a mistress patiently waiting in a five-star hotel room, if they used their influence to highlight the need for education, not only in some media splurge but within their corporations. It has been an age old trick to make yourself feel better by swiping your credit card, but superficiality just isn’t acceptable.