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This month, I attended Acton University 2009 in Grand Rapids, MI. This summer, I will be working for the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, and attending Acton U. was my first assignment. For four days, nearly 400 participants from almost 50 countries came to this city to learn about natural law, economics, religious morality, and other essential elements of a free and virtuous society. The article below is based on a conversation I had with a Ghanaian student of international development during Acton U, and is the first of a three-part series of columns this week related to Acton U.
An addiction is denying an entire continent the ability to escape the worst conditions of poverty on Earth. Governments use it as an excuse to maintain their corrupted regimes. It has torn the attention of voters and politicians in that continent away from developing their economies, even in times of such dire need. The worst thing about this addiction is that no amount of medicine or rehab can cure it.
Western foreign aid is killing Africans.
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