Africa
Wrong has written a perceptive and deeply troubling account of corruption in Kenya and of one anticorruption crusader's failed attempts to curtail it.
Bucking the conventional wisdom that China's substantial increases in aid to Africa are motivated by short-term commercial and strategic interests, Brautigam's lively and thoroughly documented account emphasizes that Chinese motivations are broader and more long term.
A longtime observer of the Great Lakes region of Africa, Lemarchand has conducted an incisive study of the Hutu-Tutsi violence in Rwanda and Burundi and the conflict it helped propagate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the mid-1990s.
Edited by Joel D. Barkan
Barkan's central empirical thesis is that all over Africa, a young, educated, and professional class of parliamentarians has begun to advance the power of legislatures, pressuring presidents to accept more democratization.
This collection of essays by leading development economists provides an excellent introduction to the causes and effects of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
