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Fri 01 Jan 2010Neo-colonial attitudes and a question of aid
FROM THE ARCHIVES:Nuala O’Faolain wrote a regular weekly column in The Irish Times for more than a decade in the 1980s and 1990s which led, in a roundabout way, to her frank memoir Are You Somebody? and her subsequent books. In this excerpt from one of her columns 20 years ago she also displayed her willingness to face up directly to difficult questions, in this case about international aid to the developing world. – JOE JOYCE
I HAVE been to only three African countries and I have not seen much of aid in action. But what I have seen has raised questions in my mind.
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