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I have agree that Africa is something of a bottomless pit when it comes to foreign aid. I can remember being constantly pestered to donate my spending money for "Black Babies in Africa" and that was nearly forty five years ago. While it is true that the Empire and British companies made an awfull lot of money from Africa, it is also true that it and they spent an awfull lot more governing and "improving" it, to say nothing of the countless millions that have poured in since 1947. And the result? A continent which, as far as I can see, seems hell bent on its own destruction.

It is a standard socialist belief that if you chuck enough money at a problem a solution will eventually emerge. Very socialist - and very wrong and one that in Africa has lead to unspeakable misery for countless millions.

What the solution to Africa's problems is, I do not know. But I do know it does not lie in yet more handouts, nor does it lie with a bunch of tired old has-beens desperately trying to hang on to their relevance.