Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid

by Peter Gill

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191614316
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	07/08/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Peter Gill has specialised in developing world affairs for most of his career, an interest that began as a VSO teacher in Sudan and his first visit to Ethiopia in the 1960s. In the 1970s he was South Asia and Middle East Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. For TV Eye and This Week, he made films in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation, in Gaza and Lebanon, in South Africa under apartheid and in Uganda, Sudan and Ethiopia during the famine years. He made Mr Famine for ITV about corruption at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation and Clare's New World about Clare Short, DFID and its first White Paper Eliminating World Poverty. From 1999- 03, he headed the India office of the BBC World Service Trust. His first project partnered Indian broadcasters in leprosy campaigning that brought 200,000 patients forward for cure, this led to a ?5 million project on HIV/Aids awareness. He has is author of Drops in the Ocean, A Year in the Death of Africa and Body Count.

Table of Contents

Introduction: For Richer, for Poorer

Editorial Reviews

"Well-turned account of the country's miseries since the 1984-85 famine and the Live Aid concert meant to relieve it" — Wall Street Journal

"Well-written and accessible book"—The Economist

"Valuable"—David Rieff, The New Republic

"Thank 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."—Bob Geldof

"Judicious analysis and a strong narrative. A must for all those who think there is a simple answer to the famine."—Michael Buerk

"The essential book on Ethiopia, the world's crucible for hunger and poverty, and on development theory and practice."—Alex de Waal

"No outsider understands Ethiopia better than Peter Gill. He combines compassion with a clinical commitment to the truth."—Jonathan Dimbleby

"Well-written and accessible book"—The Economist

"Valuable"—David Rieff, The New Republic

"Excellent" — William Easterly, New York Review of Books

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