Infantalising Africa:Gordon Brown's Paternalism

Ploughing ahead with the wrongheaded assumption that African Welfarism will ease the problems of education et al within the continent the British Chancellor is leading the charge to educate the mostly African worlds poorest. A grand gesture it may be but have we not been down this ineffectual path before? The Telegraph states "...the subsidies will confirm the view of many Africans that they should look to the outside world, rather than to themselves, for betterment. Put another way, they will allow corrupt and inefficient governments to remain in office, shielded from the consequences of their own mismanagement. Third, as well as infantilising Africans, they infantilise British taxpayers..."