British Prime Minister Tony Blair, along with other G8 leaders, have called for the doubling of foreign aid to African nations by 2010. The idea that foreign aid is a route out of poverty and political instability is not only bankrupt, but a cruel and evil hoax as well.

Nearly every sub-Saharan African nation is poorer now than when they became independent during the 1960s and ?70s. Since that time, food production has fallen by roughly 20 percent. Since 1975, per capita GDP has fallen at a rate of half of 1 percent annually. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo estimated, “Corrupt African leaders have stolen at least $140 billion from their people in the [four] decades since independence.”