Charlie Kimber

Charlie Kimber is a journalist writing for thr Socialist Worker. He opens by pointing out that many people with good intentions believe that some sort of "Great Powers" intervention is required in Africa to sort ou the terrible problems it faces. But this, he argues, is to misunderstand Africa's history. The wealthy western nations, the great imperial powers, only intervene when it is in their economic and strategic interests to do so. What is required is less intervention, not more - indeed, an end to our interference. He takes what he calls a "hard example" to prove his case - the genocide in Ruwanda, and shows how it was European colonial and post-colonial interference that led to that tragedy.