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Ethiopia Since Live Aid
Peter Gill
ISBN: 9780199569847
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
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áThank God for great journalism. This book is a much needed, exhaustively researched and effortlessly well written recent history of Ethiopia. A book that strips away the cant and rumour, the pros and antis and thoroughly explains the people, politics and economics of that most beautiful nation. A superb and vital piece of work by someone who clearly loves the country of which he writes.'…
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 continued 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 do without us?
| ISBN | 0199569843 | | Pages | 304 | | ISBN13 | 9780199569847
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 485 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Height (mm) | 218 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 142 | | Publication date | 08 Jul 2010 | | Spine width (mm) | 29 | | DEWEY | 963.072 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Note on the Text | | | | | | Map of Ethiopia | | | | | | Introduction: For Richer, for Poorer | | 1 | | I | | THEN | | | | 1 | | Return to Korem | | 9 | | 2 | | The Famine Trail | | 24 | | 3 | | Hunger as a Weapon | | 45 | | 4 | | Rebels with a Cause | | 63 | | II | | TRANSITIONS | | | | 5 | | Economic Warfare | | 79 | | 6 | | How to Prevent a Famine | | 97 | | 7 | | Population Matters | | 120 | | III | | NOW | | | | 8 | | 2005 and All That | | 141 | | 9 | | Down with Democracy? | | 161 | | 10 | | Free Association | | 175 | | 11 | | Pastoral Affairs | | 196 | | IV | | PROSPECTS | | | | 12 | | Spoiling the Party | | 221 | | 13 | | Enter the Dragon | | 238 | | 14 | | Us and Them | | 255 | | | | Select Bibliography | | 268 | | | | Index | | 271 |
Gill does great justice to this ever-pertinent issue. Maria Kuecken, London School of Economics Review of Books Excellent. William Easterly, New York Review of Books Well-written and accessible book. Economist A thoughtful, well-informed and detached account. Michael Holman, Literary Review Thank God for great journalism. A book that strips away the cant and rumour a superb and vital piece of work. Bob Geldof No outsider understands Ethiopia better than Peter Gill. He combines compassion with a clinical commitment to the truth. Jonathan Dimbleby The essential book on Ethiopia, the world's crucible for hunger and poverty, and on development theory and practice. Alex de Waal, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and author of 'Famine Crimes' Judicious analysis and a strong narrative. A must for all those who think there is a simple answer to the famine. Michael Buerk  Be the first to write a customer review
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