Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : aid and humanitarianism in sub-Saharan Africa after 1990 / Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens -- Discourses of democracy, practices of autocracy : shifting meanings of democracy in the aid-authoritarianism nexus / Rita Abrahemsen -- Aid to Rwanda : unstoppable rock, immovable post / Zoë Marriage -- Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Uganda / David M. Anderson and Jonathan Fisher -- Ethiopia and international aid : development between high modernism and exceptional measures / Emanuele Fantini and Luca Puddu -- Donors and the making of 'credible' elections in Cameroon / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle -- Foreign aid and political settlements : contrasting the Mozambican and Angola cases / Helena Pérez Niño and Philippe le Billon -- Conclusion : democracy fatigue and the ghost of modernization theory / Nocolas Van de Walle.

"In 2013 almost half of Africa's top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes. While the West may claim to promote democracy and human rights, in practice major bilateral and international donors have seen their aid policies become ever more entangled with the survival of their authoritarian protégés. This book raises an urgent and too often neglected question: to what extent are foreign aid programmes actually perpetuating authoritarian rule?" -- Publisher's web site.

In English.