Ditch foreign aid or remain trapped”

Dr Ngozi Okonio Iweala, February 2025.

The call to African states in general and Nigeria in particular, to stop relying on foreign aids could not have come at a more appropriate time.

The return of Donald Trump as President of America can be likened to two natural disasters which occur to individual nations or whole regions.

A wide ranging forest fire devastates entire areas, destroys buildings, farms and other assets.

But, gradually out of the ruins, a new commu­nity springs up — which frequently is more resilient.

An epidemic, like the recent COVID-19, which claimed millions of lives, globally, had left us better prepared to withstand its effects next time.

For too long, the perceived benefits of foreign aids had blinded poorer nations in Africa, Asia, Middle East and elsewhere to the underlying unintended debilitating impacts of prolonged reliance on hand-outs – particularly from US.

https://independent.ng/time-for-nigeria-to-live-without-aids/