Aid and authoritarianism in Africa: development without democracy

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Introduction: aid and authoritarianism in sub-Saharan African after 1990 -- 1. Discourse of democracy, practices of autocracy: shifting meanings of democracy in the aid-authoritarianism nexus -- 2. Aid to Rwanda: unstoppable rock, immovable post -- 3. Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Uganda -- 4. Ethiopia and international aid: development between high modernism and exceptional measures -- 5. Donors and the making of ‘credible’ elections in Cameroon -- 6. Foreign aid and political settlements: contrasting the Mozambican and Angolan cases -- Conclusion: democracy fatigue and the ghost of modernization theory. Introduction: aid and authoritarianism in sub-Saharan African after 1990 -- 1. Discourse of democracy, practices of autocracy: shifting meanings of democracy in the aid-authoritarianism nexus -- 2. Aid to Rwanda: unstoppable rock, immovable post -- 3. Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Uganda -- 4. Ethiopia and international aid: development between high modernism and exceptional measures -- 5. Donors and the making of ‘credible’ elections in Cameroon -- 6. Foreign aid and political settlements: contrasting the Mozambican and Angolan cases -- Conclusion: democracy fatigue and the ghost of modernization theory.