Moyo is determined to begin an urgent conversation, one not confined to suited white men and middle-aged rock stars. When she was writing the book, she said, she also wasn’t trying to reach “economists, because we already know. Dead Aid was really targeted at African policymakers and anybody, globally, who’s interested in seeing Africans become an equal partner in the world.”
“I wanted to talk to anybody who watches TV and sees a poor starving African child and thinks, ‘This is ridiculous,’ but at the same time is interested in finding a long-term solution ... who thinks, ‘I actually want to see these countries really rise up from this horror into something where the country and its people contribute meaningfully — not just to their countries, or to their continent but to the world as a whole,” Moyo said. “I want people to call their MPs [members of parliament] after reading it and say: ‘Hang on, you’re asking us to give more aid — do you know that there are actually other alternatives?’”
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