Pace on Earth

Africa

Sometimes Flashback Friday can be serendipitous. I was reading last Saturday's Globe and found a great story about a young African economist that has been dubbed the anti-Bono. Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian born, Harvard and Oxford educated, economist. She feels very strongly that 1) Africa's dependance on foreign aid stifles self-sufficient development and enables the culture of corruption so prevalant across the continent and 2) she can't stand that an Irish Rockstar has somehow become the voice of Africa. I urge to take a look at the Globe article and also this one from the NY Time, interesting stuff. The best nugget I found in both was a website called www.kiva.org that allows you to give micro-loans to entrepeneurs around the world. This bypasses the Aid agencies and NGOs and goes straight to the people in need (at least that's what it's supposed to do).

This is serendipitous because I was just thinking to myself that I really need an excuse to give you this song for Flashback Friday:

Classic!

Pace out.

Labels: Flashback Friday

posted by Vitamin S @ 4:09 p.m.