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Africa Up Close is the blog of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Blog of the Africa Program, Africa Up Close provides a nexus for analysis, ideas, and innovation for and from Africa..
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    Who is in Charge? Power Dynamics and Aid in Africa

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    By Susanna Campbell, ’Dapo Oyewole & Haley Swedlund  // Wednesday, May 3, 2023

    Image-AFR-Blog-Foreign-Aid-01Are power dynamics in international aid changing? In 2020, the racial justice movement called out the entrenchment of racism in national and international systems, including in foreign aid. Activists and aid workers alike called on the aid industry to stop perpetuating a global system that places wealthy donor countries in positions of power and poorer developing countries as passive recipients.

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