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Obstacles to progress

Distortions

Every time an INGO employs, absorbs into their sophisticated business management
methods and develops the professional skills of a local African, they are setting in motion

a chain of events that actually never ends. Those now fully professional local Africans,

through their own daily contacts, quite unwittingly, play a significant role in accelerating the
speed in which people in the general population adapt to change, take part in change and

go on to encourage further change. Even the most informal of contacts provides the basis
of osmosis where changes of ideas, changes in aspirations, changes of expectations are

transferred and absorbed.

Other parts of this narrative highlight the social volatility created by imposed changes
that come about from imposed changes, such as those arising from the 'conditionalities'

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related to World Bank and IMF. And that these 'zuŋ u institutions seem blind to the
social volatility they create, how this can increases the barriers to the very changes they
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seek to sponsor. And that these 'zuŋ u institutions and the 'zuŋ u donor nations seem
to have neglected to build this variable into their overall approach to Foreign Aid /
Development Aid.
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The seeming 'zuŋ u haste for speedy development can only be enhanced by
regulating INGO, who it can be seen to more and more rely on funding from 'institutional'

funding, and requiring them to only employ local Africans in-country, and to set up
development programmes designed to provide the necessary personal development of

suitable Africans to make this possible.
It does no sense at all to not do this.

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Small time INGO

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Africa is full of these. Each one adding a layer of 'zuŋ u worthiness, each one adding
more layers of distortion to African governance and reinforcement to local African
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communities that they are so helpless they always need the help of the superior m'zuŋ u.
And so of course these small time INGO actually undermine a key aspect of

Development legacy. It's something learned by the UK in its own country that development
has to have as its essential legacy that the population where development has taken place

has to be left in a position where they themselves are capable of sustaining and leading

the development from there on.