Aid and authoritarianism in Africa :
Aid and authoritarianism in Africa : development without democracy /
edited by Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens.
- [Uppsala] : London : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Zed Books, 2016.
- 186 pages: illustrations.
- Africa now .
- Africa now (Zed Books) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : aid and authoritarianism in sub-Saharan Africa after 1990 / Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens -- Discourses of democracy, practices of autocracy : shifting meanings of democracy in the aid-authoritarianism nexus / Rita Abrahamsen -- Aid to Rwanda : unstoppable rock, immovable post / Zo�e Marriage -- Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Uganda / David M. Anderson and Jonathan Fisher -- Ethiopia and international aid : development between high modernism and exceptional measures / Emanuele Fantini and Luca Puddu -- Donors and the making of 'credible' elections in Cameroon / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle -- Foreign aid and political settlements : contrasting the Mozambican and Angolan cases / Helena P�erez Ni�no and Philippe Le Billon -- Conclusion : democracy fatigue and the ghost of modernization theory / Nicolas van de Walle.
A revealing and urgent insight into the motives, dynamics and consequences of the increasing amounts of development aid given by the West to authoritarian governments in Africa.
Since 1960
Economic assistance--Political aspects--Africa.
Economic assistance--Moral and ethical aspects.
Authoritarianism--Africa.
Authoritarianism.
Economic assistance--Moral and ethical aspects.
Economic assistance--Political aspects.
Politics and government.
Africa--Politics and government--1960-
Africa.
HC800 / .A62
338.91/181206
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : aid and authoritarianism in sub-Saharan Africa after 1990 / Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens -- Discourses of democracy, practices of autocracy : shifting meanings of democracy in the aid-authoritarianism nexus / Rita Abrahamsen -- Aid to Rwanda : unstoppable rock, immovable post / Zo�e Marriage -- Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Uganda / David M. Anderson and Jonathan Fisher -- Ethiopia and international aid : development between high modernism and exceptional measures / Emanuele Fantini and Luca Puddu -- Donors and the making of 'credible' elections in Cameroon / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle -- Foreign aid and political settlements : contrasting the Mozambican and Angolan cases / Helena P�erez Ni�no and Philippe Le Billon -- Conclusion : democracy fatigue and the ghost of modernization theory / Nicolas van de Walle.
A revealing and urgent insight into the motives, dynamics and consequences of the increasing amounts of development aid given by the West to authoritarian governments in Africa.
Since 1960
Economic assistance--Political aspects--Africa.
Economic assistance--Moral and ethical aspects.
Authoritarianism--Africa.
Authoritarianism.
Economic assistance--Moral and ethical aspects.
Economic assistance--Political aspects.
Politics and government.
Africa--Politics and government--1960-
Africa.
HC800 / .A62
338.91/181206