@businessinsiderssa: "Africa is not poor. Africa is looted." Sierra Leonean entrepreneur Mallence Bart-Williams, in her TED Talk, presents a provocative view of the global economy. She argues that the West depends on Africa, not the other way around. She says foreign aid often functions as a PR strategy that distracts from the ongoing extraction of Africa’s wealth. In her view, African currencies are deliberately undervalued despite being backed by the minerals and gold that fuel global industries. Mallence argues that Africa doesn’t need charity - it needs the systems that enable exploitation to be dismantled. Do you agree with her perspective? How do we begin to dismantle these colonial economic structures?