Dead Aid: African Economists versus Bono & Other Rich White Western Dudes
Posted: November 7th, 2009 | Author: CB | Filed under: politics | Tags: celebrity industrial complex, class fisticuffs, god save the patriarchy, LOLpolitics, race matters, stuff white people like, sustainability | 2 Comments »The newest addition to the bastard bookshelf!
Dead Aid is written by Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian woman who holds a Bachelors of Science from Lusaka, Zambia, an MBA in finance from American University in Washington, D.C., a Masters from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a PhD in economics from Oxford.
Moyo was a consultant at the World Bank, then head of economic research and strategy for sub-Saharan Africa at Goldman Sachs.
She’s has been dubbed by superlative Western journalists as the ‘the Anti-Bono’ – and not just cause she’s highly educated.
No, it’s because — rather than fall in step and fawn over mass media celebrity admonitions to buy ipods and swag made by children dispersed on one foreign continent in order to benefit children on another — Moyo calls for the cutting of global, systemic aid to Africa.
