Myths about Africa and Truth

This post powerfully debunks common myths about Africa and reframes the narrative to highlight the continent’s agency, diversity, and innovation. It’s refreshing to see the emphasis on trust-based philanthropy and the value of African-led solutions, which are too often overlooked in global discourse. Local leaders aren’t just beneficiaries — they’re the architects of lasting change. This truth needs wider recognition. The call to shift from survival-based giving to sovereignty and sustainability is especially compelling. Philanthropy must evolve to meet Africa where it is today — vibrant, complex, and full of promise. Listening and collaboration are the keys to real impact.

In every society there are huge number of people who are problem-solvers, they try for the social innovation with their own way. Sometime, outsiders, destroy their innovative mindset and process, through their tools, thoughts, and process. In Bangladesh I saw a number of philanthropy initiagives which was not driven by clear vision and process. I can give an example scholarship program for high school students. They think it is very useful for study and it moved them in better career thinking, the practical scenario is not that. It helps a minimum to support them for study, even it most time made a dependencey mindset which destroy their creativitity.