Jeffrey Sachs on Europe and the US telling African countries to just ‘govern properly’ https://t.co/MiT3y76Xef

Side note: It was blisteringly hot. I melted in this global warming heat 🥵 "I recently had a chance to visit the @africamuseumbe in Belgium. It was built by Leopold II to showcase his privately owned Congo Free State in the International Exposition of 1897. You enter the building through a new hall and a long corridor... See more

The vast majority of Africa was never colonized, and since WW2 the continent has received the equivalent of *five* Marshall Plans (it only required one to rebuild all of Europe), and yet they still can't build a bridge. It's time to be honest about this. The problem is Africans.