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The Road to Hell Reviews Maren shows how this previously underreported history [of Somalia] set the stage for the 1992 famine and the subsequent ill-fated American military intervention. -- Charles Lane in Slate
Mr. Maren's mission, which he accomplishes beyond a doubt, is to force us to think about humanitarian intervention in uncomfortable ways. Maren and his conclusions will have to be heard whenever the issue [of aid] is aired, lest more money be wasted and fewer people actually helped. -- Raymond Bonner The New York Times Book Review 
Imagine a blend of the old-style American muck-raking populism of H.L. Mencken or I.F. Stone and Evelyn Waugh's eye for absurdity. . . for an idea of what to expect in this well-written, ticking time bomb of a book. -- Vancouver Sun Maren writes with the fury and disillusionment of intimacy. . . an invaluable corrective to the hagiographical accounts of humanitarian aid operations that have been the norm. . . He is an expert debunker. -- David Rieff in Foreign Affairs A devastating portrayal of aid agencies drunk on government largesse and indifferent to actual needs and to the impact of their assistance. -- London Review of Books. A chilling exposé ... a rare insider's view of the effects of international-relief efforts. A compelling indictment of good intentions gone awry, solidly documented. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Maren is a dogged, tenacious researcher -- The Road to Hell is a first-rate exposé. --The American Enterprise Maren's work is a superb and detailed account of something terribly wrong. Ultimately, the "global fixit industry" fixes little but itself. -- The National Catholic Reporter Marvellous. Maren shows how aid is the modern form of colonialism, a 'humanitarian' cover for maintaining imperialist domination. -- Socialist Review This book is a forceful and disturbing portrait of Western intervention in Somalia. -- Publisher's Weekly Engaging. . .provocative. . . will require some kind of response by those wishing to refute the broader argument against foreign aid. -- The Washington Times Tenaciously and passionately researched... Maren hurls stinging accusations and makes them stick. Much of what Maren uncovers is shocking, some of it surreal. -- Kirkus Eloquent and forceful...crisply written. -- The New Democrat Reads like a morality play - how Lady Bountiful turned Hydra -- The Baltimore Sun A splendid, literate, muckraking memoir -- Amazon Editors This book is a contribution to the growing critique of international aid, similiar in force of argument to Graham Hancock's Lords of Poverty, but both more focused and more tightly argued. Maren targets the deceptions of nongovernmental organizations in soliciting public donations and very effectively contrasts disaster realities against aid agency publicity and their abilities to protect and assist communities. Maren was an aid worker and journalist in Somalia during the famine and civil war there in the early 1990s. His firsthand observations and analysis of numerous documents of that international crisis provide a powerful and provocative account of the flaws, faults, and failings of U.S. charities, such as Save the Children and the United Nations in providing assistance in times of crises. -- Library Journal |
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Africa Betrayed George B.N. Ayittey / Paperback / Published 1993 Africa in Chaos George B. N. Ayittey / Hardcover / Published 1998 Compassion and Calculation : The Private Foreign Aid Business David Sogge (Editor) 1996 The
Foreign Aid Business : Economic Assistance and Development Co-Operation Kunibert
Raffer, Hans Wolfgang Singer, 1996 Tropical
Gangsters : One Man's Experience With Development and Decadence
in Deepest Africa Robert Klitgaard, 1991. Very
entertaining memoir of doing development for the World
Bank while looking for the perfect wave in Equatorial Guinea.
Read this to understand
exactly what happens among the development set. The Benefits of Famine : A Political Economy of Famine and Relief in Southwestern Sudan, 1983-1989 by David Keen. Despite the academic sounding title, this book is a fascinating look at how relief efforts in Sudan have prolonged the conflict there. Highly recommended. Lords of Poverty : The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business Graham Hancock, 1992. The original trashing of the aid world. Still relevant. Masters of Illusion : The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations Catherine Caufield / Hardcover / Published 1997 Why
Food Aid? Vernon
W. Ruttan (Editor), 1993. A truly excellent collection of
documents and comments about the history of U.S. food aid programs.Essential
Reading. More Than Altruism : The Politics of Private Foreign Aid Brian H. Smith , 1990 The Politics of United States Foreign Aid Vol 1 George M. Guess, 1987 The
Road to Hell : The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid International
Charity Michael
Maren Published 1997. The best and most damning thing
ever written about the aid business. Compassion and Calculation : The Business of Private Foreign Aid David Sogge (Editor), 1996 |
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Teenage Refugees from Somalia Speak Out (In Their Own Voices); Ikram Hussein Somalia : The Missed Opportunities; Mohamed Sahnoun Tales of Punt : Somali Falktales As Retold by Abdi Abdulkadir Sheik-Abdi; Abdi Abdulkadir Sheik-Abdi Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad; Waris Dirie Abdi and the Elephants; Mary Gehman Divine Madness : Mohammed Abdulle Hassan, 1856-1920; Abdi Sheik-Abdi Aman : The Story of a Somali Girl; Janice Boddy, Virginia Lee Barnes Somalia and Operation Restore Hope : Reflections on Peacemaking and Peacekeeping; John L. Hirsch, Robert B. Oakley Networks of Dissolution : Mogadishu; Anna Simons The Invention of Somalia; Ali Jimale Ahmed Learning from Somalia : The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention; Walter Clarke, et al; A Modern History of Somalia : Nation and State in the Horn of Africa; I. M. Lewis A Pastoral Democracy : a Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa; I. M. Lewis Socialist Somalia : Rhetoric and Reality; Ahmed I. Samatar; The Somali Challenge : From Catastrophe to Renewal?; Ahmed I. Samatar Blood and Bone : The Call of Kinship in Somali Society; I. M. Lewis The Cost of Dictatorship : The Somali Experience; Jama Mohamed Ghalib First Footsteps in East Africa Or, an Exploration of Harar; Richard Francis Burton From Bad Policy to Chaos in Somalia : How an Economy Fell Apart; Jamil Abdalla Mubarak; I Remember Somalia (Why We Left); Jo Matthews; The Invention of Somalia; Ali Jimali Ahmed Losing Mogadishu : Testing U.S. Policy in Somalia; Jonathan Stevenson Mogadishu! : Heroism and Tragedy; Kent Delong, Steven Tuckey Somalia (Enchantment of the World); Mary Virginia Fox Somalia : A Crisis of Famine and War (Headliners); Edward R. Ricciuti Somalia : State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention, and Strategies for Political Reconstruction (Brookings Occasional Papers); Ahmed I. Samatar, et al Somalia in Word and Image; Katheryne Loughran The State and Rural Transformation in Northern Somalia, 1884-1986; Abdi I. Samatar; Arms for the Horn : U.S. Security Policy in Ethiopia and Somalia, 1953-1991 (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies); Jeffrey A. Lefebvre Blood and Bone : The Call of Kinship in Somali Society; I. M. Lewis Crisis Response : Humanitarian Band-AIDS in Sudan and Somalia; John Prendergast; Daybreak Is Near-- The Politics of Emancipation in Somalia : Literature, Clans, and the Nation-State; Ali Jimale Ahmed Daybreak Is Near-- The Politics of Emancipation in Somalia : Literature, Clans, and the Nation-State; Ali Jimale Ahmed Ethiopia the Horn of Africa and U.s Policy; John Spencer Food Import Dependence in Somalia : Magnitude Causes and Policy Options (World Bank Discussion Papers, 23); Y. Hossein Farzin Historical Dictionary of Somalia (African Historical Dictionaries Series, No. 6); Margaret F. Castagno The State and Rural Transformation in Northern Somalia, 1884-1986; Abdi Ismail Samatar The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia : The War Behind the War; Catherine Besteman, Lee V. Cassanelli A Voice for Somalia; Mary Robinson War Clouds on the Horn of Africa : A Crisis for DEtente; Tom J. Farer; |
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