Africas Aid problem

Africa’s AID problem.

Its cold on the tow path at the moment. About zero degrees. And so our thoughts turn to warmer climes. Just this morning we were talking about Swaziland. Great weather there. So when we got back from our freezing walk, I googled Swaziland. (Googling is a bit like sniffing pee on the tow path – except you sniff out stories on the internet.)

Anyhow. Heres how Swaziland reinforces the African aid model.

Swaziland is poor. The population is around 1 Million. 70% of them live in dire poverty. Almost 40% have HIV/Aids and this is the highest proportion in the world. Swaziland received around 1 Million in Aid from Britain last year.

If you were the king of this castle, how would you spend your million pounds of British Aid?

Educating youngsters to help mitigate the Aids problem?
Perhaps treating HIV victims with drugs?
Providing work opportunities for the unemployed?

If you considered any of the above, you are not getting it. You are thinking like a westerner, and this I think is the biggest problem Africa has faced in all its years of falling victim to the curse of ‘AID’.

It’s not the African way.

Here’s what you would do if you were King of Swaziland. (Thinking like an African.)

First – marry 11 wives (The younger the better as it lessens the chances of them being HIV+)

Second – buy them each a new BMW – spending almost half a million pounds in this process.

It still leaves you with half a million to spend on something else, and of course King Mswati’s British education (Sherborne) will have made him aware that all he needs to do is ask for more, and it will come. The British public never tire of donating money for African excess if its sold to them by rock and roll quasi politicians, and in this case can be grateful that the fruits of their donations went in such a non violent undertaking, which is off course unusual in the context of African Aid and its final outcome.

And so, unlike the millions who die elsewhere in Africa following our Aid intervention, we can only salute King Mswati for his prescience in preventing this money going in militant endeavors by purchasing motor cars that help increase the happiness of 11 Swazi citizens.

Which leads us to ask:
Which kills more Africans. Aids or Aid?

Any one able to enlighten me can write a reply to this blog.

Woof woof from the frozen Tow path…. Wallace.