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The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials
This collection analyses the approach taken by the current government of Ethiopia to deal with the massive human rights violations that took place from 1974 to 1991 under the Derg. …
The Development State
A timely, ethnographically informed account of the "development state" of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, …
Famine Crimes
Famine is preventable. The persistence of famine reflects political failings by African governments, western donors and international relief agencies. Can Africa avoid famine? …
Africa Works
An examination of the political instrumentalization of disorder. Are there social, political and cultural factors in Africa which aspire to the continuation of patrimony and …
Guns and Governance in the Rift Valley
A vivid account of modern pastoralist armed conflict. Small arms dominate conflicts in Africa. More people die in wars in Africa than in any other continent. In cattle raiding the …
Losing your Land
Examines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today-land-grabbing-and shows the widespread impact of small-scale dispossession. Dispossession of land on …
Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana
Analyses the limits to democracy in Botswana. Is Botswana still 'an African miracle'? Thanks to diamonds the country's growth rate was the highest in the world into the 1990s, and …
Gender and Genocide in Burundi
Can Burundi achieve its political and economic objectives without returning to genocidal violence? This book identifies the continuities and transformations of violence in Burundi …
Fortress Conservation
Challenges the myth of an African wilderness, and the conflict between conservation policies and the livelihoods of rural people. Many conservationists insist that conservation …
Fighting for the Rain Forest
Examines the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity. Do small wars in Africa manifest a 'new barbarism'? What appears as random, anarchic violence is no such thing. The …
The Criminalization of the State in Africa
Has Africa moved on from 'classical corruption? What are the political and economic origins of official implication in crime? What are the new frontiers of crime in South Africa? …
Undermining Development
How does power impact on sustainable development? The experience of many South Asian and Latin American countries demonstrates that the power of local NGOs can contribute to …