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“Go home, m’zungu Go Home !”

Some Key Findings

Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991)
Angolan Civil War (1975-2002)

Shaba I (1977)
Mozambican Civil War (1977-1992)

Seychelles coup d'état (1977)

Shaba II (1978)
Ethiopian–Somali Border War (1982)

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The m'zungu ‘not for profit’ Empires

(“Veni, Vidi, Vici,Steti“- ego adduxit amicis meis)

· Over the last 100 years, the number of m’zungu INGO have mushroomed.

· m’zungu INGO have become more like businesses and the INGO sector is now an ‘industry’;
are increasingly being absorbed into the budgets & priorities of m’zungu governments;

morph into something that more serves the interests other than the local African people
they claim to serve

· Africans have become increasingly critical and cynical towards the presence of m’zungu

INGO in their country, their operations, their relationship with African governments and their
personnel.

· Among academics and professionals, there are concerns as to the role of INGO e.g.

whether they represent a new kind of dependency

(only 2.1% of global funding goes directly to civil society in the Global South. The
remaining 97.9% goes to international organisations who then sub-contract 87% of
project delivery to civil society in the Global South)

their professionalism diminishes grassroots activism

they are ‘preserving imperialism’ in much the same way the clergy did during the
colonial era
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