Congo Masquerade: The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure
Author(s): Theodore Trefon
Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy, naivete and sabotage. It is a unique and original study of aid inefficiency in one of the 21st century's major attempts at reconstructing a failed state in Africa. Whilst a number of books have examined war and plunder in the Great Lakes region, none have yet evaluated the imported 'template format' reform package pieced together to introduce democracy and improve the well-being of ordinary Congolese. In this startling and provocative book, Trefon offers an in-depth analysis of Congolese political culture and examines the way it hampers reform.
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Theodore Trefon (PhD Boston University) is a Congo expert specializing in the politics of state-society relations. He has devoted the past 25 years to Congo as a researcher, lecturer, author, project manager and consultant. Trefon's expertise derives from a career of analysis, participatory observation and extensive fieldwork. He is contributing editor to the Review of African Political Economy. Founding director of the Belgian Reference Centre for Expertise on Central Africa, he now heads the Contemporary History Section of the Belgian Royal Museum for Central Africa.
Preface and acknowledgements The crocodile and the scorpion: a parable Timeline Map of Democratic Republic of Congo 1: Why state-building is not working 2: The political economy of broken promises 3: A patchwork of unrealisitc reforms 4: The administrative juggernaut 5: Culture matters 6: Conclusion Bibliography
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- : Zed Books Ltd
- : Zed Books Ltd
- : 0.181
- : 07 September 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Theodore Trefon
- : Paperback
- : 330.96751
- : 160
- : illustrations