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We refuse to direct our gaze to the powerful, petitioning the US government to solve the problems of Africa. Their depiction of an Africa doomed without USFG help relegates the continent to a US colonial protectorate. Ultimately, you will have to choose between helping those who are looting Africa on the one hand, or aligning yourself with Africans working for their emancipation on the other.

Patrick Bond, Political Scientist and research professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban, 2005 [Looting Africa p. 1-9, 136-141, 154-161]

Health assistance is part of the new dialectic of neoliberal capitalism: the new motto of globalization has shifted from “sink or swim” to “swimming lessons until further notice.” Padraig Carmody, Lecturer in Geography at Trinity College, 2007 [Neoliberalism, Civil Society and Security in Africa p. 104-109]

Rather than evaluating the benefits of plan implementation, we ask you to evaluate the 1AC in terms of the effects of its advocacy and pedagogy. We ask you to “Reject the 1AC as an activist-scholar”—for it relies upon, participates in, and reproduces a model of Imperial Scholarship in the grand old style

Paul Zeleza, Director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Illionis at Urbaan-Champagne, 2003 [Rethinking Africa’s ‘Globalization’ p. 42-49, 60-61]

Do not despair. The choice is not between accepting the capitalist abuses of the status quo on one hand, and the aid-package reformism of the affirmative on the other. Alternatives will emerge and must emerge—it is the affirmative that is being naïve when they suggest that African subordination to capitalism will last forever.

John Saul, South African activist-scholar and Professor of Political Science at the York University, 2005 [The Next Liberation Struggle p. 27-31

Do not be seduced by the affirmative’s reforms—they impede popular struggles just as Africa stands on the brink of a new wave of decolonization that can finally free it from the ravages of international capitalism.

John Saul, South African activist-scholar and Professor of Political Science at the York University, 2005 [The Next Liberation Struggle p. 257-261]