In William Easterly’s work, The Tyranny of Experts, he claims that our system for fighting global poverty does not need to be reformed, it needs to be replaces. Easterly explains how the system we have set up to aid people in need has inadvertently became a system that locks these same people in a state of need. Not only have our humanitarian efforts made little possible difference in the long run, they have come to reinforce the likes of ‘human rights violations by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and autocratic allies.’ Easterly attributes the failure of development and growth in Africa to the evils of the Western world due equally to imperialism and racism. The problems of patriarchy seems to be a recurring theme in much of what
