BBC Africa Debate asks: Has Africa outgrown development aid?

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...

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