Corruption has damaged African aid projects

SOME lessons take a little longer to learn. GOAL has spent three decades fighting poverty in the developing world.

Hunger can be sated with a bowl of rice, most sickness can be treated by a single pill, but the standout terminal illness that remains largely untreated is corruption.

In the past 40 years, 53 countries on the African continent have managed to shake off the shackles of colonialism.