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How To Help, Save or Develop Africa (Part 6): US-Africa Aid Programs

The U.S., for its part, has also crafted three special initiatives to help Africa since the 1990s. The basic reason why many well-intentioned aid programs came to grief was that the commitment on the part of many of African leaders to put their own houses in order was simply not there. They took the aid […]

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How To Help, Save or Develop Africa (Part 1): The Background

On June 14, President Barak Obama unveiled a 4-pillar development strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa. They are: 1. Strengthen Democratic Institutions 2. Spur Economic Growth, Trade, and Investment 3. Advance Peace and Security 4. Promote Opportunity and Development Each of the broad categories has five sub-objectives, except the fourth, which has six, making a total of […]