Table of Contents

Preface Hakima Abbas 1 Aid colonisation and the promise of African continental integration - Tim Murithi 2 The future of aid in North-South relations - Bernard Founou Tchuigoua 3 Aid from a feminist perspective - Awino Okech 4 Africa battles aid and development finance - Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife 5 Aid for development - Samir Amin 6 Aid and reparations: power in the development discourse - Hakima Abbas with Nana Ndeda 7 Post-9/11 aid, security agenda and the African state - Shastry Njeru 8 Africa: official development assistance and the Millennium Development Goals - Demba Moussa Dembele 9 Aid effectiveness and the question of mutual accountability - Charles Mutasa 10 The European Development Fund or the illusion of assistance - Mouhamet Lamine Ndiaye 11 Africa's new development partners: China and India - challenging the status quo? - Sanusha Naidu and Hayley Herman 12 Internal displacement, humanitarianism and the state: the politics of resettlement in Kenya post-2007 - Lyn Ossome

About the Author

Hakima Abbas is a policy analyst with Fahamu's African Union Monitor. Yves Niyiragira is a Fahamu fellow and co-editor of the AU Monitor.

Reviews

"Pambazuka Press, in contrast to others, is determined to publish writings of long-term relevance: Aid to Africa: Redeemer or Coloniser? collects the reflections of fourteen intellectuals who, in the light of new perspectives, go so far as to question the relevance of all development aid." Ilka Vari-Lavoisier, Le Monde diplomatique"

"Relevant, academically well produced and a useful addition to the debate."
Wolfgang Thomas, University of Stellenbosch Business School"