Mallence Bart-Williams | TEDxBerlinSalon | Why the wealth of Africa does not make Africans wealthy?

One thing that keeps me puzzled, despite having studied finance and economics at the world’s best universities, the following question remains unanswered: Why is it that 5,000 units of our currency is worth one unit of your currency when we are the ones with the actual gold reserves? It’s quite evident that the aid is in fact not coming from the West to Africa, but from Africa to the Western world. The Western world depends on Africa in every possible way, since alternative resources are scarce out here. So how does the West ensure that the free aid keeps coming? By systematically destabilizing the wealthiest African nations and their systems, and all that backed by huge PR campaigns, leaving the entire world under the impression that Africa is poor and dying, and merely surviving on the mercy of the West. Well done, Oxfam, UNICEF, Red Cross, Life Aid, and all the other organizations that continuously run multimillion-dollar advertisement campaigns depicting charity porn, to sustain that image of Afr