Aid to Africa

Africa is now in need of a minimum standard of living. Its people need basic goods and services so as to go on living and improve African lives. Africa is a continent that has extreme starvation and is underdeveloped. It has lots of problems. For example, Africa lacks basic levels of education, Health, Water, and Economic Empowerment. It also suffers from natural disasters, and exploitation. According to the BBC, three million babies die every day in the first week of their life, while 3 million are born dead. Also more than “100 million children do not go to school.” The UN says that “In Botswana 39% of the population is HIV positive, and life expectancy has dropped to 39 years,” and according to the UN Population Fund, “a woman dies every 60 seconds due to pregnancy related causes, equal to 60 deaths per hour or more than 500,000 every year.” But I think poverty and hunger is very important than other needs since the number of hungry people is growing by 5 million year. The reasons why Africa is in need of such basic resources are complicated. Some of the important reasons are the slave trade, and an exploitative capitalist system, as well as poor governance within African countries. However, according to Jared Diamond, the main reason has been geographical luck since the beginning of human history. For example, Asia has been lucky in that it was a fertile continent, and therefore developed agricultural and stockbreeding techniques early in its history. Because of it strong relationship with Asia, Europe was able to learn such techniques, which Africa was not. Arguably however, it is the capitalist system that has caused Africa’s problems. Just as the slave trade enslaved people hundreds of years ago, the capitalist system continues to enslave Africans today! Nowadays, when we look at the world economy, we realize Africa cannot participate in economic life. Now, Africa is in such a bad situation and alone. Africa has been exploited since the beginning of human history and it must be saved from this situation. This is humanity’s debt to Africans. Hence, aid to Africa has to be given immediately so that millions of people are not in a difficult situation. All nationalities, states, and people as human beings together have a moral obligation to provide this aid plan. However, aid is not the solution for Africa. Africa needs to find a permanent solution to develop and progress by itself. However, until Africa finds its own solutions aid should continue to be paid and must never be stopped.