Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid
by
Peter Gill
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199569843
ISBN-13
9780199569847
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 8th, 2010
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
502 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.60 x 2.30 cms
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This book tells the story of Ethiopia, the place, the people, and the westerners that tried to help. The first journalist to reach the centre of the famine in 1984, Peter Gill draws on interviews with villagers, politicians, aid workers, and economists and asks whether any of the rich world's big promises on aid and Africa are being fulfilled.
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?
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