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Tag: Africa Studies

Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina (1971–2019)

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27 February 2023

The IMF generation: development aid as reflected in African literature

Exploited by colonialism and deprived of power: what does modern East African literature tell us about how the Kenyan population coped with measures of economic and social development? A transdisciplinary study of literature by Martina Kopf, an African literature scholar, zooms in on how the population perceives the impact of “well-intentioned” development cooperation and neoliberal […] Continue reading “The IMF generation: development aid as reflected in African literature”

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5 October 2015

Colonial roots of modern development policy

Concepts of modern development aid have been inherited from Europe’s colonialist era and thus have their roots much further in the past than has been thought till now. This is the outcome of a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF whose report was recently published in the book Developing Africa. Continue reading “Colonial roots of modern development policy”

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