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. 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.
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.