Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements
Foreword: NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa Aram Ziai
Introduction: The Lifeworlds and Trajectories of NGOs in Africa Melina C. Kalfelis and Kathrin Knodel
Part I: Engagements and Encounters
Chapter 1. An Association for Emerging Technologies and the Bases of Its Longevity. The Example of Yam Pukri in Burkina Faso Sylvestre Ouédraogo
Chapter 2. ‘I Will Not Tell Anyone Until You Have Left’: The Ending of a Development Relationship Remembered Karen Lauterbach
Chapter 3. Becoming an Expert and Negotiating Development: A Development Studies Programme in Germany Ulrike Schultz
On Opportunities Chapter 4. Alternatives to Consultancy and NGOing: Developing Anthropological Team Research in West Africa Sten Hagberg
Part II: Politics and Donors
Chapter 5. Career Trajectories of Tanzanian Aid Workers: Structural Inequalities and New Management Practices in Public Foreign Aid Molly Sundberg
Chapter 6. The Contribution of National NGOs to Development in Burkina Faso: Review and Prospects Alain J. Sissao
Chapter 7. Artisanal Mining – a Necessary Evil: Narratives Legitimating Large-Scale Mining as a Pathway to Development Bettina Engels
On Reciprocity (beyond Africa) Chapter 8. The Price of Getting Donor Money: Gift Exchange in Aid Relations and the Depoliticization of NGOs Beata Paragi
Part III: Memories and History
Chapter 9. Negotiating Tightropes: A Historical Appraisal of NGOs and their Adaptability in Nigeria’s Changing Political Space Abimbola O. Adesoji
Chapter 10. From Development State to Non-State Development: Counterpart Careers, West German Aid and Asymmetrical Interdependence in Late Socialist Tanzania Eric Burton
Chapter 11. Civil Society and the Challenge of Consolidating Democracy in Togo Kokou Folly Lolowou Hetcheli
Chapter 12. The Custodians of Development Memory in Morocco: When Development Projects Create New Forms of Leadership for Policy-Making Matthieu Brun
On Institutions Chapter 13. On the Advantages of ‘Intentional Amnesia’: Some Preliminary Notes on a Cultural History of NGOs in Burkina Faso Hans P. Hahn
Afterword: Ad Hoc NGOs, Structural Failure and the Politics of Silence: Stories about Development from a Village in Togo Hubertus Büschel
Index