Table of Contents

Introduction 1

POVERTY: Impossible Choices

1 A Life Quite Ordinary 17

2 Africa Scrambled 31

3 President for a Day 51

AID: Good Intentions

4 Where Does Your Money Go? 73

5 Pass the Hat-Charity Ad 81

6 Budget or Fudge It-National Aid 97

Interlude: Gamblers Required 119

7 Airily Conditioned-International Aid 127

8 Aid Betrayed 145

TRADE: Dusty Plains and Unlevel Playing Fields

9 In Theory 165

10 Out of Africa 173

11 Into Africa 192

12 It Doesn't Work for You Either 211

GLOBALIZATION: Might and Right

13 Africa Doesn't Matter 235

14 Screw You, Too 255

CHANGE: Action Heroes

15 What Happens Next? 275

16 Powerless or Complacent? 288

17 Profit in Virtue 306

18 Guilt or Glory 323

Acknowledgments 333

Appendix 1 National Ad Donors 337

Appendix 2 United Nations Agencies in Africa 339

Notes 341

Bibliography 349