Seriously, are we going to accept this as a thoughtful and coherent evaluation of the 'Africa Problem'? How do you even progress past the title? Africa = AIDS?!! All Africans have AIDS and are doomed to be turned into circumcised sexual deviants with an AK in one hand and a misguidedly given fistful of our hard earned dollars in the other are they? I'm all for sensible debate on Africa, but this aint it. He's been there.. so what. I've been in a plane but that doesn't make me a pilot. And the fact that he pre-categorises all criticism that this reductivist drivel will draw as self righteous is pretty lame given the tone of the article. If you're really interested, go find out why post colonial countries are amongst the poorest in the world (spoiler alert.. it's something to do with being forcibly asset stripped for decades then continually bullied by western economies). Go find out what the EU and US like to do at WTO trade talks (http://www.actionaid.org.uk/100501/wto_talks_collapse_where_next_for_world_trade.html). There are people who's job it is to think about Africa. Go ask the internet what they are saying. Don't listen to this guy, he seems to have a problem with foreigners, and there's a word for that (I mean Xenophobic not the other one). Letting people die so they don't get their hands on our stuff is a bit morally bankrupt and.. well just not very nice. Besides, it's a bit rich of us westerners to fret about Africa being a drain on resources. Where do the world best polluters and resource drainers live? If he wants to save mother Earth by population control then we'd better start handing the cyanide pills out amongst ourselves first.

Howdy. Would appreciate an invite if it works in the UK. Cheers.