He added other more relevant and necessary development issues on the continent: Aid alone would not end poverty; it is vital that Africa leads its own development process; peace and security, development, human rights and the rule of law were crucial for pulling Africa out of the quagmire of poverty and wars; to stop conflicts in many spots on the continent, including Northern Uganda and Darfur.
Obviously aid alone cannot end poverty. Aid induces dependency, blunts initiative, stalls innovation and substitutes self-reliance. It promotes indolence in body and mind. When a country depends on foreign aid, it ipso facto relies on foreigners to think policy, manage economy, gear and align national development to alien's national self-interest. Perhaps what Africa needs more today, is foreign technology. We do not have to invent the wheel, when the wheel has long been invented. Technology can be acquired through FDI; if it is not availed through this channel due to sluggish FDI inflow, it can always be obtained through the backdoor - on the black-market or through other means.
