Aid and Other Dirty Business
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A vivid account of the everyday problems facing African countries, Aid and other dirty business is a radical and brilliantly readable approach to the apparently unending problem of poverty in Africa. Read it - and help some of the world's poorest people gain more control of their lives.
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