Aid and authoritarianism in Africa : development without democracy / edited by Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Africa now (Zed Books)Publication details: [Uppsala] : London : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Zed Books, 2016. Description: 186 pages: illustrationsSubject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 338.91/181206 23
LOC classification:
  • HC800 .A62
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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