

We are made to believe that this is what we ought to be doing. In the past decade alone, on the back of Live 8, Make Poverty History, the Millennium Development Goals, the Millennium Challenge Account, the Africa Commission, and the 2005 G7 meeting (to name a few), millions of dollars each year have been raised in richer countries to support charities working for Africa.

In the past fifty years, over US$1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. subscribe - both mentally and financially - to the notion that giving alms to the poor is the right thing to do.

We live in a culture in which those who are better o.
