We’ve reached a very low-level equilibrium where it’s not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa… It’s not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there’d be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice. Dambisa Moyo Read Quote
My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It’s a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization. Dambisa Moyo Read Quote
Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can’t do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative – war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture. Dambisa Moyo Read Quote
The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions… the two are not synonymous. Dambisa Moyo Read Quote
A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country’s future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals. Dambisa Moyo Read Quote
I don’t think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it’s fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don’t feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever. Dambisa Moyo Read Quote
This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don’t do labels very well; we don’t do this, ‘Oh, you’re a Democrat; oh, you’re a Republican.’ Because we live in the real world. Dambisa Moyo Read Quote
