I had never heard of Andrew Mwenda until I saw this TED conference, but I have certainly heard iterated his critique of the "Humanitarian Relief Industry", a multi-trillion conglomerate of international organizations, charities and government agencies that benefit from trying to "save Africa from poverty".

This is such an explosive presentation that he gets heckled by Bono --unfortunately the heckling was edited from the film. The biggest argument Mwenda presents is that Africa doesn't need more aid. That the media has so successfully created an image of Africa as a place for hopelessness and despair that it makes it almost impossible for the rising creative class of entrepreneurs to raise any investment money at all.

On the contrary many of the governments of Africa have no incentive in growing an entrepreneurial class for the future when they can make vast amounts of money through foreign aid. On such example is with Uganda's Ministry of Health. Every single bureaucrat has a car or other such vehicle and yet not one of the rural dispensaries have access to either a car and needless to say an ambulance.

Don't get too scared about the lenght of the clip. It goes rather fast with his wit, statistics and audacity to call the symbiotic relationship between African governments and the system of foreign aid as corrupt.