Response to Dambisa Moyo’s Video Presentation.

     While watching this video, there were many things that were said by Dambisa Moyo, one of the things said that immediately caught my attention was when she informed her audience that more than trillions of dollars has been transferred to Africa for the continents development, or in other words aid. Although we know that Africa is a huge continent, it really boggled my mind how all this money is aided to this continent however Africa continues to stay in a deep pool of poverty. This aid has not at all improved the quality of life for Africa’s people and on top of that Dambisa Moyo explains to us that sometimes that aid harms the citizens of African more than it helps. That here doesn’t make sense, I mean, isn’t the general definition of the term aid “to help”?  Moyo evidently expresses what she thinks should be done is foreign aid to be replaced with other ways of economic or finance development in Africa. I think this wish of Moyo’s is completely fair because clearly aid is not expectations of helping. Moyo explains that the world approaches “helping” Africa with low expectations. Low what Africans can do and about the continent in general. Another thing that really caught my attention is when Dambisa Moyo says “there is not one country on Earth that has achieved long term economic growth, meaningfully reduced poverty by relying on aid”. When she said this it started to all make sense to me. Although it is evident that this aid has not been working nor will it probably ever work, the world still continues to push that idea on Africa. This specific issue sort of reminded me of how in America they push financial aid and taking out loans and grants to their students of color who attend universities. Although they convey that they are only really helping us by giving us the opportunity to attend school, they never tell us nor do they even make it known that it will be almost close to impossible to pay all of that debt off.