Uganda, Feb. 20 -- Over the last three decades, the overbearing servant-master engagement between African countries and especially the West has ostensibly rotated around governance and economic financing.

Fingers are wagged at African leaders to style up after the fashion of Western democracy. They must carry out economic reforms with market forces reigning supreme. Also work on better governance, reduce waste and corruption, to ensure service delivery. Then of course respect human rights and freedom of the citizen with emphasis on holding periodic free and fair elections etc.

The liquorice of economic aid awaits those who make effort to tick all or most of these boxes. Aid is ultimately viewed as the panacea to the economic ills that m...