What Africa Needs

Gaston Asitaki says it clearly — We need penicillin, not condoms, in central Africa. "US aid agencies want to revitalise family planning in the Democratic Republic of Congo," he writes. "This is certifiably insane." More pointedly, he says that "it is absurd; it is criminally irresponsible, for the United States and international aid agencies to argue that the solution to the DRC’s calamitous maternal mortality is family planning."

"The African family can teach the West a few lessons," said the Congolese lawyer in an earlier article — In the Congo, you can’t survive without a family.