What Africa needs is trade, not more aid

I recently met Hassan Ahmed (not his real name), a resident of Wajir County who is married and has seven children. All of them have dropped out of school for lack of school fees. The furthest any of them has gone is Form Two. He has had to sell everything to get by in life. His ageing parents depend on him for their livelihood and medication.

He has been left with no assets other than the one emaciated camel in his homestead. He stares bleakly at the blue sky in the sweltering heat of North Eastern Kenya; a statistic of poverty and want.