The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with DonorsThis book presents an original approach to understanding the relationship between official aid agencies and aid receiving African governments. The first part provides a challenge to the hazy official claims of aid donors that they have stopped trying to force African governments to do what 'we' think is best for 'them' and instead are now promoting African 'ownership' of the policies and projects which foreign aid supports. The authors tease out the