Archive for August, 2006

Gabriel Rozenberg of The Times on the effect of China on African development »

This article from top journalist Gabriel Rozenberg is significant:
Unlike those wussies at the IMF and the World Bank, China doesn’t make aid conditional on respect for human rights. Privately, its leaders think that the West’s claim to the moral high ground is self-serving cant. Nor does China push a model of economic development - although […]

Nigeria takes action to name and shame corrupt politicians »

In his famous 1983 book The Trouble with Nigeria, Chinua Achebe writes: “There is basically nothing wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility… of […]