"Year of Africa",What Benefits?

Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie critiques Make Poverty History "...making Africans invisible objects and recipients of the campaign – to be wheeled onstage to give a brief smile and a wave when the time is right – defeats the object of helping people liberate themselves from misery. When people see themselves represented only as helpless objects, they lose the power to determine their own future, the will to take responsibility for their own destiny..."
via OpenDemocracy