CAN FOREIGN AID BE DECOLONIZED? – With Power Shifter Degan Ali

Foreign aid has helped save millions of lives. But the whole
system is facing a huge reckoning.


As the New York Times’ Editorial Board wrote recently, “A growing
group of intellectuals, aid workers and civic leaders from Africa
say the “white savior” mentality of the world’s foreign aid
system can end up doing more harm than good.


We’re asking: Does aid work? Is aid really so colonial
that it needs to end? How must the whole system change? And is it
time to move to talk about reparations?


Nadia and Nabil have a truly fascinating conversation with Degan
Ali – a trailblazer in the movement to decolonize development aid
and rethink humanitarianism, and the Executive Director of Adeso,
a Nairobi-based organization that works in Somalia and Kenya. Her
website is www.deganali.com.


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