Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa

Abstract

This book series serves as a scholarly forum on African contributions to and negotiations of diverse modernities over time and space, with a particular emphasis on historical developments. Specifically, it aims to refute the hegemonic conception of a singular modernity, Western in origin, spreading out to encompass the globe over the last several decades. Indeed, rather than reinforcing conceptual boundaries or parameters, the series instead looks to receive and respond to changing perspectives on an important but inherently nebulous idea, deliberately creating a space in which multiple modernities can interact, overlap, and conflict. While privileging works that emphasize historical change over time, the series will also feature scholarship that blurs the lines between the historical and the contemporary, recognizing the ways in which our changing understandings of modernity in the present have the capacity to affect the way we think about African and global histories.

Gondolatok a fejlesztési segélyek negatív hatásairól P. T. Bauer szellemi örökségének tükrében

“…o.). Kenneth Kalu Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa című könyve egyszer sem hivatkozik bauer munkáira (Kalu [2018]).…”

Africa, the global order and the politics of aid

“…The main focus of this article is in exploring this linkage, crucial for a better understanding of the symbiotic injustice of the global order and the politics of aid. However, it should be noted at the outset that it has become almost commonplace among experts, especially in the last two decades, to increasingly admit, correctly, that international aid has become, in many ways, a mechanism for exploitation and political control, contributing significantly to destabilising local economies in certain regions of the world, blocking off opportunities and incentives for growth in those regions and ultimately worsening world poverty (Ferguson 1994;Easterly 2001;Griffiths 2003;Perkins 2004;Chakravarti 2005;Calderisi 2006;Riddell 2007;Bolton 2008;Collier 2007;Shirley 2008;Moyo 2009;Deaton 2013;Kalu 2018). 1 A phenomenon some left-leaning intellectuals more recently refer to as Karma colonialism (Alyson 2020), insofar as these instabilities occur in previously colonised societies, with African countries being the worst hit in this regard.…”

“…2 Kenneth Kalu, Paul Collier and Giles Bolton generally share Sachs' misgivings about the misdirection, paucity and politics of aid, while suggesting alternative approaches to revising the current aid strategy. Kalu (2018) blames the failure of aid in Africa on the structure of the postcolonial African state, which he variously describes as oligarchic, non-developmental and predatory. African states, Kalu claims, are replete with corrupt, extractive institutions that routinely block ideas and policies that could translate into the well-being of the people, while serving the selfish interest of the elite.…”

Protests and blood on the streets: repressive state, police brutality and #EndSARS protest in Nigeria

“…The state thus became 'an instrument of private and sectional interests' (Williams 1976:43), and could not maintain appropriate conditions for civil rights protection. Essentially, the colonial regime bequeathed the Nigerian state its authoritarian and repressive character (Mkhize and Madumi, 2016;Plaut, 2016;Kalu, 2018). The colonial state in Nigeria lacked legitimacy and set up colonial police because it needed brutal force to enforce rules and orders that would maintain firm control of the local natives.…”