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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Africa nowPublication details: Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; London, UK : Zed Books Ltd, 2016. London, UK : Zed Books Ltd, Description: 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781783606283
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.91/181206   23
Contents:
Introduction : aid and authoritarianism in sub-Saharan Africa after 1990 / Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens -- Discourses of democracy, p ractices of autocracy : shifting meanings of democracy in the aid-autho ritarianism nexus / Rita Abrahamsen -- Aid to Rwanda : unstoppable rock , immovable post / Zoë Marriage -- Authoritarianism and the securitiza tion of development in Uganda / David M. Anderson and Jonathan Fisher - - Ethiopia and international aid : development between high modernism a nd exceptional measures / Emanuele Fantini and Luca Puddu -- Donors and the making of 'credible' elections in Cameroon / Marie-Emmanuelle Pomm erolle -- Foreign aid and political settlements : contrasting the Mozam bican and Angolan cases / Helena Pérez Niño 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 conseq uences of the increasing amounts of development aid given by the West t o 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, p ractices of autocracy : shifting meanings of democracy in the aid-autho ritarianism nexus / Rita Abrahamsen -- Aid to Rwanda : unstoppable rock , immovable post / Zoë Marriage -- Authoritarianism and the securitiza tion of development in Uganda / David M. Anderson and Jonathan Fisher - - Ethiopia and international aid : development between high modernism a nd exceptional measures / Emanuele Fantini and Luca Puddu -- Donors and the making of 'credible' elections in Cameroon / Marie-Emmanuelle Pomm erolle -- Foreign aid and political settlements : contrasting the Mozam bican and Angolan cases / Helena Pérez Niño 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 conseq uences of the increasing amounts of development aid given by the West t o authoritarian governments in Africa.

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