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Dark Star Safari

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 When I worked in country risk, we tried to put something called “texture” in our country reports. The telling detail, the revealing anecdote. Flesh on the bones of argument. This book by eminent travel writer Paul Theroux is all about...
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Economist's Tale, The

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 The foreign aid community plays the villain in this important book. Peter Griffiths tells an engrossing tale of his work as a consultant to the government of Sierra Leone, during which he ended up – to his surprise – trying...
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Tropical Gangsters

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 Robert Klitgaard achieves a rare feat: explaining the realities of foreign aid and development assistance while delivering a charming, warm, though ultimately tragic narrative about Equatorial Guinea. It's now an old book -- published in 1990 -- but deserves to...
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We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We will be Killed with our Families

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 This book documented a cataclysmic event that the world had all but ignored: the Rwandan genocide. It is a gripping read, full of outsize characters – notably, a hotelier who evokes the Bogart character in Casablanca – and passages with...
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