Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.

Africans only perceive themselves as victims.

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.

AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical.

Because it's unacceptable that the aid worker's chauffeur only speaks his own tribal language, an applicant is needed who also speaks English fluently - and, ideally, one who is also well mannered. So you end up with some African biochemist driving an aid worker around, distributing European food, and forcing local farmers out of their jobs. That's just crazy!

Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.

Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.