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Record Nr.

UNINA9910542331703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2016

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-21836-7

1-78360-630-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Africa now

Disciplina

338.91/181206

Soggetti

Economic assistance - Political aspects - Africa

Economic assistance - Moral and ethical aspects

Authoritarianism - Africa

Political ideologies

Africa Politics and government 1960-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.