EAN: 9783319789866

FOREIGN AID AND THE FUTURE OF AFRICA - KENNETH ...

During the past five decades  sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any
other region of the world  and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region. As Kenneth
Kalu argues  this does not mean that foreign aid has failed  rather  it means that foreign aid
in its current form does not have the capacity to procure development or eradicate poverty.
This is because since colonialism  the average African state has remained an instrument of
exploitation  and economic and political institutions continue to block a majority of citizens
from meaningful participation in the economy. Drawing upon case studies of Angola  Cameroon 
Chad  Equatorial Guinea  Democratic Republic of the Congo  and Nigeria  this book makes the
case for redesigning development assistance in order to strike at the root of poverty and
transform the African state and its institutions into agents of development.

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