A
special edition of BBC World Service’s global radio programme, BBC
Africa Debate, will be coming from the British Museum in London.
Presented by the BBC’s Alex Jakana and Zeinab Badawi and recorded in
front of an invited audience, it will ask if Africa has outgrown
development aid.
Ten
years ago the British Museum hosted the launch of the UK-government-led
‘Commission for Africa’. This was the time of a popular global movement
to Make Poverty History in Africa, a revival of Live Aid concerts, and
promises from the leaders of the world’s most developed nations to
increase aid to Africa. The Commission for Africa encouraged partnership
between Africa and the developed world, rather than a relationship of
dependency. BBC Africa Debate will explore if this is now happening and
asks if the continent is now in a position to be an agent of its own
progress.
The
BBC debate coincides with the UN Financing for Development conference
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and comes just weeks after Kenya's President
Uhuru Kenyatta urged fellow African leaders to stop receiving foreign aid. The panel will be:
Andrew Mitchell - Secretary of State for International Development, 2010-12;
Oby
Ezekwisili - Co-founder of Transparency International, former World
Bank Vice President for Africa and former Education Minister of Nigeria;
Tutu Agyare - Managing Director of Nubuku Investments;
Giles
Bolton - author of "Aid and other dirty business", previously worked
for DFID and now Responsible Sourcing Director at Tesco.
Audiences
can join the debate via social media, with conversations on Twitter
(#bbcafricadebate) and on Facebook and Google+ (search for BBC Africa).
BBC
Africa Debate will be pre-recorded on Monday 13 July and broadcast at
19.00GMT (20.00 British Summer Time) on Tuesday 14 July. It will also be
available as a podcast on the BBC World Service website.
This edition of BBC Africa Debate is made with support from the Royal African Society.
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