BMJ 2002;324:1525 ( 22 June )

Letters

Africa can solve its own health problems

    Africa needs less globalisation and more real assistance . . .
    . . . but can it solve these problems itself?

Africa needs less globalisation and more real assistance . . .

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

EDITOR---The only part of Ncayiyana's editorial with which I agree is the end, when he talks about the need to restore a critical mass of African researchers.1 In the second paragraph, with one sweeping statement ("Granted, Africa's legacy of particularly exploitative colonial occupation by European powers is partly to blame"), he pushes aside centuries of slavery, colonialism, oppression, and neocolonialism; he clearly does not quite understand the psychological and sociological implications of the effects of Western domination on the situation in most African countries. With his exposition of World Bank capitalist ideologies and his quotation of obvious statements by a British minister, his ideological bent becomes clearer.

Africa must certainly pull itself out of its political and economic doldrums. Our leaders have squandered our resources and oppressed us over the years, with or without the tacit support of Western countries, and they lack the political will to improve . . . [Full text of this article]
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to StumbleUpon StumbleUpon   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

Relevant Article

Africa can solve its own health problems
Daniel J Ncayiyana
BMJ 2002 324: 688-689. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

This article has been cited by other articles:

  • Wight, J., Jakubovic, M., Walters, S., Maheswaran, R., White, P., Lennon, V. (2004). Variation in cadaveric organ donor rates in the UK. Nephrol Dial Transplant 19: 963-968 [Abstract] [Full text]  
Access jobs at BMJ Careers
Whats new online at Student BMJ