ABSTRACT
Development in Africa remains fundamentally grounded in “who gets what, when, how,” how much, under what conditions and at what costs.1 To believe that development is about restructuring the world so that economies will become more balanced, trade will become more fair, education will be more accessible, women will become more equal to men, and all people will be able to better their conditions economically, politically, socially and environmentally, is to define development, as currently being implemented, from an apolitical and unrealistic stance. To believe that those who have plenty will willingly, of their own volition, share equally what they have with those who have less is romantic idealism.
