Charity, the root of all evil?

[Furunculus]

It's really not that complicated, stop dumping subsided goods in Africa. And send a few engineers to actually help teach them, (and make some price deals of course but fair ones)

QFT.

When my family arrived in africa the purpose of my fathers job was to be part of an all english/anglo school-staff intended to provide a 1940's style public school education.

Today there is only one white teacher left in the school, the head teacher (who was our neighbour) Frank Cooke, as all the rest have since been replaced by graduates of the school. The most gifted of those graduates were given contractual bursaries to pay for a western university education on the proviso that they brought their knowledge and skills back to Malawi in order to benefit the country.

Job well done!

The same can be said about local and national government; now populated by educated professionals from Kamuzu Academy.

Funniest of all, Malawi got very little aid post independence because it was run by a right-wing authoritarian as opposed to a 'democratic' peoples movement, so its success is its own. Contrasted with this success, its neighbours 'benefited' from communist inspired civil wars that ripped the continent apart, countries which received lots foreign aid along along with the ideology and spent most of it on Migs and swiss bank accounts.

Malawi, a country of 4.5 million people supported 1.5 million refugees from Mozambiques civil war for years barely a penny of aid from international aid bodies.

So, to get back on topic; stop sending aid administered by a bazillion quangoes and simply DESTROY the common agricultural policy as well as removing tariffs on cheap manufactured goods.