While many westerners decry the pullback of US foreign aid, the truth is that aid programs often are just another form of central economic planning with results predictably creating their own sets of problems.
Patient Kwizera
Patient Kwizera is an independent researcher and political commentator based in Kigali, Rwanda. He writes on the political economy of Africa’s Great Lakes region, focusing on foreign aid, state planning, and the gap between development promises and results on the ground. Before turning to research and writing, he spent nearly a decade delivering projects, including running logistics for a commercial peat harvest and working on a peat-fired power plant in southern Rwanda. He writes in English, French, and Kinyarwanda.
