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

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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Superior document:Africa now
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Place / Publishing House:London, England : : Zed Books,, 2016.
[London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2021
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Africa now (Zed Books)
Physical Description:1 online resource (193 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of 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 / Zoë 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 Pérez Niño and Philippe Le Billon
  • Conclusion : democracy fatigue and the ghost of modernization theory / Nicolas van de Walle.