Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Black Man’s Burden

This program examines the factors underlying the low economic status of many Africans. It finds that Africans are often caught in a vicious cycle of poverty: farmers cannot grow enough to afford fertilizer, and without fertilizer they cannot increase their crop yield or their income; workers are too poor to afford medicine when they become ill, and without medicine they cannot get better to return to work to make money. As long as the current economic structure is in place, the rich will get richer and the poor will grow poorer. (20 minutes)

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