> With what money? There's a reason they're dependent on USAID.

How much does BASIC hygiene cost it's like manners. It's education (which is more than well funded at a "throw cash at it problem".

> we just dumped our excess production

Well in a nutshell, yes we'd dumping quite a lot on Africa, that doesn't mean we should shore up the system with yet another western derived screw-up. At this point I'll go for the good old star trek perspective of impacting a cultures development by suddenly advancing their technological position.