Abuja Journal of Philosophy and Theology (APT) 9.Foreign Aid and Africa's Development (original) (raw)

An online search on ‘foreign aid and Africa’s development’ will yield hits like ‘foreign aid is hurting Africa’, ‘why foreign isn’t working in Africa’, or ‘foreign aid has helped Africa’. Some scholars argue that contrary to popular myth, foreign aid has not helped to accelerate Africa’s growth. On the contrary, it has boosted corruption, slower economic growth and poverty. Some Another school of thought claim that foreign aid has not accelerated Africa’s growth because of the double standard by the West, and its attraction for dirty money from developing countries. Yet, can one discountenance realities that overseas aid has offered lifelines to millions of Africans caught in intergenerational poverty and economic stagnation? What of several religious institutions that are offering critically needed pastoral, humanitarian and academic assistance to adherents – thanks to foreign aid and subsidies? So, has foreign aid helped Africa’s development? Has it helped the Church in Africa to be self-reliant, theologically creative and proactive? The jury is out. This edition of APT contains some interventions principally from the perspectives of philosophy and theology on the place, limits, promises, and ambivalence of foreign assistance to Africa in general, and to the Church in particular. (See more via http://aptjournal.org/latest-edition-2/)