Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 February 2012
- ISBN 9780199644049
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 215x135x23 mm
- Weight 364 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 map 0
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Short description:
This book tells the story of Ethiopia, the place, the people, and the westerners that tried to help. The first journalist to reach the centre of the famine in 1984, Peter Gill draws on interviews with villagers, politicians, aid workers, and economists and asks whether any of the rich world's big promises on aid and Africa are being fulfilled.
MoreLong description:
The terrible 1984 famine in Ethiopia focused the world's attention on the country and the issue of aid as never before. Anyone over the age of 30 remembers something of the events - if not the original TV pictures, then Band Aid and Live Aid, Geldof and Bono. Peter Gill was the first journalist to reach the epicentre of the famine and one of the TV reporters who brought the tragedy to light. This book is the story of what happened to Ethiopia in the 25 years
following Live Aid: the place, the people, the westerners who have tried to help, and the wider multinational aid business that has come into being. We saved countless lives in the beginning and continue to save them now, but have we done much else to transform the lives of Ethiopia's poor and set them on a
'development' course that will enable the country to thrive?
Gill does great justice to this ever-pertinent issue.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: For Richer, for Poorer
Part I: THEN
Return to Korem
The Famine Trail
Hunger as a Weapon
Rebels with a Cause
Part II: TRANSITIONS
Economic Warfare
How to Prevent a Famine
Population Matters
Part III: NOW
2005 and All That
Down with Democracy?
Free Association
Pastoral Affairs
Part IV: PROSPECTS
Spoiling the Party
Enter the Dragon
Us and Them
