Ramping up US Africa Relations – An Interview with Dr. Melvin Foote of the Constituency for Africa – DUNIA Magazine

http://africandiasporaleaders.com/melvinfoote/ What are some of the improvements that you think we need to see in terms of the relationships which you’ve mentioned between Africans and African Americans? What are the challenges, but what are especially the improvements in the relationships? Dr. Melvin Foote: Well, when I first came to Washington our foreign aid to Africa constituted dropping food from airplanes. Sometimes we killed people on the ground with the food coming out of the airplane landing on their heads. That was the nature of our strategy to address hunger and poverty in Africa. We were not on the ground…we just dropped stuff from the airplanes. We’ve gone from those days of airplane food drops to where we started giving the money to African governments directly. And of course they stole a lot of the money and put it in secret Swiss Bank accounts. We then switched up and gave the money to NGOs, http://africandiasporaleaders.com/melvinfoote/
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