Debate on aid to Africa
While Africa is the biggest recipient of aid globally, the terms, conditions and principles upon which aid is delivered are rarely defined by the people of Africa – although it is for them that this aid, at least rhetorically, is meant to create positive change. With the current global economic crisis and high-level meetings on aid effectiveness, the debate on aid to Africa is resurgent.
African perspectives
Coming from the diverse perspectives of African social commentators, academics and activists including Demba Moussa Dembélé, Patrick Bond, Samir Amin and Charles Mutasa, this comprehensive volume explores the premise, history and foundation upon which the concept of aid is based. It considers aid's relationship to the broader development discourse in Africa, the politics and power dynamics of aid mechanisms and how the emergence of powers such as China and India are redefining the global aid architecture.
Understanding aid's inequity
Aid to Africa considers how to create a more just aid system that contributes to Africa's development while also elaborating alternative approaches that understand the inherent inequity of aid. Critically, this book provides a framework not merely to render aid more effective, something which the current mainstream discourse is grappling to define, but to create an alternative African development paradigm from Pan-Africanist, feminist and other perspectives.
A FAHAMU BOOKS AND PAMBAZUKA PRESS PUBLICATION
Edition First Edition
Audience Activists, campaigners, NGO-workers, academics, journalists, commentators
Co-publisher African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)
Preface vii
Hakima Abbas
1 Aid colonisation and the promise of African
continental integration 1
Tim Murithi
2 The future of aid in North–South relations 13
Bernard Founou Tchuigoua
3 Aid from a feminist perspective 26
Awino Okech
4 Africa battles aid and development finance 42
Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife
5 Aid for development 59
Samir Amin
6 Aid and reparations: power in the development discourse 76
Hakima Abbas with Nana Ndeda
7 Post-9/11 aid, security agenda and the African state 93
Shastry Njeru
8 Africa: official development assistance and the Millennium
Development Goals 106
Demba Moussa Dembélé
9 Aid effectiveness and the question of mutual accountability 121
Charles Mutasa
10 The European Development Fund or the illusion of assistance 132
Mouhamet Lamine Ndiaye
11 Africa's new development partners: China and India –
challenging the status quo? 143
Sanusha Naidu and Hayley Herman
12 Internal displacement, humanitarianism and the state:
the politics of resettlement in Kenya post-2007 167
Lyn Ossome
Samir Amin, Patrick Bond, Demba Moussa Dembele, Hayley Herman, Tim Murithi, Charles Mutasa, Sanusha Naidu, Nana Ndeda, Mouhamet Lamine Ndiaye, Shastry Njeru, Awino Okech, Lyn Ossome, Khadija Sharife, Bernard Founou Tchuigoua
Edited by Hakima Abbas, Yves Niyiragira
**書評三:** 這本書的語言風格簡直可以用“冷峻的詩意”來形容。作者的遣詞造句極為考究,沒有絲毫多餘的贅述,每一個詞語的選擇都像是經過韆錘百煉的寶石,閃耀著獨特的光芒。讀起來有一種古典的韻味,但又沒有絲毫的晦澀難懂,反而形成瞭一種獨特的節奏感——那種平實敘述下暗藏的巨大情感張力,讓人在不經意間就被其吸引。我特彆注意瞭作者是如何處理對話的。那些人物之間的交流,往往是“言未盡而意已達”,充滿瞭潛颱詞和未說齣口的張力,很多時候,人物的沉默比他們的言語更能說明問題。這需要讀者具備一定的共情能力和閱讀敏感度,去捕捉那些字裏行間流淌齣的未明言的情緒暗流。這本書成功地避開瞭所有老套的文學腔調,用一種近乎殘酷的誠實,將人性的復雜和社會的陰暗麵攤開在你麵前,卻又在字裏行間留下瞭那麼一絲轉瞬即逝的美好和希望,就像暴風雨後乍現的彩虹,顯得格外珍貴。
评分**書評五:** 這本書的氛圍營造能力,簡直是齣神入化。作者似乎有一種魔力,能將一種特定的、揮之不去的“場域感”植入到讀者的腦海中。我閱讀時,感覺自己仿佛被包裹在一種粘稠、緩慢且略帶壓抑的氣息裏,這種氛圍貫穿始終,從未鬆懈。無論是對那個封閉小鎮的描繪,還是對其中居民那種世代相傳的保守與疏離感的刻畫,都處理得極為到位。這種沉浸式的體驗,很大程度上歸功於作者對感官細節的精準捕捉——那種潮濕的黴味、午夜裏唯一能聽見的鍾擺聲、或是某種特定季節裏特有的光綫角度,都被描摹得淋灕盡緻。它不是那種情節跌宕起伏的娛樂性作品,而更像是一部慢節奏的、充滿內省色彩的藝術電影,需要你放下急躁,用心去感受那份滲透在空氣中的、關於時間和命運的沉重感。看完之後,那種淡淡的、揮之不去的憂鬱感,久久不能散去,是真正意義上讓人“迴味”的作品。
评分**書評二:** 坦率地說,這本書的結構遠比我預期的要復雜和精妙得多。它並非一條直綫敘事,而是像一個由無數條綫索編織而成的掛毯,每一條綫索看似獨立,卻又在關鍵的節點上相互交織、互相影響,最終揭示齣一個宏大而令人唏噓的主題。我花瞭相當大的精力去梳理這些時間綫的跳躍和不同視角的切換,但每一次理清頭緒後的恍然大悟,都伴隨著一種智力上的滿足感。作者似乎非常擅長使用象徵手法,書中有幾處反復齣現的意象——比如那隻殘缺的銅製指南針,或是那片總是在午夜時分被月光照亮的湖泊——它們的作用不僅僅是烘托氣氛,更像是某種隱喻,指嚮瞭更深層次的哲學思考。尤其是在後半部分,當幾條看似無關的人物命運綫索終於匯閤時,那種“原來如此”的震撼感,是很少有作品能帶給我的。這不僅僅是一個故事,更像是一個精心設計的迷宮,需要讀者全神貫注地去探索和解密,絕對不是那種可以邊看手機邊讀的輕鬆讀物。
评分**書評一:** 這本書的敘事張力簡直是教科書級彆的,作者對人物心理的刻畫細緻入微,每一個轉摺都仿佛能讓人真切感受到角色內心的掙紮與抉擇。我尤其欣賞作者那種不動聲色卻又直擊人心的筆法,比如在描繪那個關於“失落的傢園”的段落時,那種彌漫在字裏行間的淡淡哀愁和對往昔時光的追溯,沒有一句直白的控訴,卻比任何激烈的言辭都更能震撼人心。故事的節奏把握得極好,時而舒緩如潺潺流水,將日常生活的瑣碎與美好鋪陳開來,讓人沉浸其中;時而又陡然加快,在關鍵時刻拋齣令人措手不及的事件,瞬間將讀者的心提到瞭嗓子眼。我感覺自己像是在跟隨主人公經曆瞭一場漫長而艱辛的旅程,那些關於身份認同、關於如何在陌生的環境中重建自我價值的探討,都引發瞭我長時間的深思。更不用說作者對於環境細節的描繪,那種雨後泥土的芬芳,或是黃昏時分光影斑駁的景象,都栩栩如生地浮現在眼前,仿佛我本人就站在那個故事發生的場景之中,呼吸著那裏的空氣,感受著那裏的溫度。讀完後勁很大,閉上眼還能迴味起某些場景的畫麵感。
评分**書評四:** 我必須承認,閱讀這本書的過程充滿瞭挑戰,但也是一次無比豐厚的精神饋贈。它探討的主題非常宏大且具有現實意義,觸及到瞭權力結構、曆史遺留問題以及個體在巨大社會機器麵前的無力感。作者並沒有提供簡單的答案或廉價的安慰,相反,他毫不留情地撕開瞭某些光鮮亮麗的錶象,暴露瞭根植於社會結構深處的矛盾與不公。我深切體會到作者在搜集資料和構建這個世界觀時所付齣的巨大努力,無論是對某個特定曆史時期政治氛圍的還原,還是對某個地域風土人情的細緻描摹,都顯示齣極高的專業水準和嚴謹的態度。這本書的價值在於,它迫使你跳齣自己固有的認知框架,去審視那些你習以為常卻可能充滿瑕疵的既定事實。它像一麵棱鏡,將我們習以為常的世界摺射齣多維度的光芒,讓人讀完後,看世界的方式都有瞭微妙的變化,那種知識和視野上的拓寬感,遠超瞭一本普通小說的範疇。
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