The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa

1. Introduction: Enduring Humanitarianisms in Africa
Bronwen Everill, Josiah Kaplan

2. Freetown, Frere Town and the Kat River Settlement: Nineteenth-Century Humanitarian Intervention and Precursors to Modern Refugee Camps
Bronwen Everill

3. Public Health or Public Good? Humanitarian Agendas and the Treatment of Leprosy in Uganda
Kathleen Vongsathorn

4. Contraband Charity: German Humanitarianism in Contemporary Kenya
Nina Berman

5. ‘Reading’ British Armed Humanitarian Intervention in Sierra Leone, 2000–2
Josiah Kaplan

6. Humanitarian Intervention in the Horn of Africa
Christopher Clapham

7. The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Land of Humanitarian Interventions
Claude Kabemba

8. Humanitarian Aspects of Interventions by the United Nations in Southern Africa
Christopher Saunders

9. The Nigerian Civil War and ‘Humanitarian Intervention’
Michael Aaronson

10. Building State Effectiveness: Evolving Donor Approaches to Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Claire Leigh

11. Beyond Humanitarian Imperialism: The Dubious Origins of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ and Some Rules for its Future
Richard Drayton

12. Conclusion
Bronwen Everill, Josiah Kaplan

Nyckelord: History, African History, Poverty, Aid and Development, International Relations, Development Studies, African Culture, Sociology, general