The Uncertain Business of Doing Good
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Larry Krotz
About this book
In The Uncertain Business of Doing Good, Larry Kotz explores the "good intentions" that underlie Westerners' urge to help Africa, focussing specifically on people involved in trying to end the Angolan civil war, AIDS research and the UNIM circumcision research project in Kenya, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Author / Editor information
Larry Krotz is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and author of five previous books, including Midlifeman and Tourists, which looks at how mass tourism is changing the world. Over the past 25 years he has travelled to a number of African countries, where he produced the documentary film, Searching for Hawa’s Secret, and wrote extensively for magazines and newspapers on scientific research and foreign aid projects. Originally from Winnipeg, he currently lives in Toronto.
Reviews
“Krotz understands that modern aid workers are people who would not explicitly condescend to their developing world counterparts, whom they often call partners. But their impact, he argues, can be condescending nonetheless. … While the book, at once reportage and a kind of meditation, is larger in scope than this, it is puctuated by numerous vignettes that vividly illustrate the unintentional clashes between first and third worlds.”
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Outsiders in Africa
3 - Angola 1992
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Luanda
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Huambo
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Reportage
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Other people’s Countries
51 - Nairobi, kenya 1997
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Looking for a Prostitute
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Hawa
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Searching for Hawa’s Secret
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How do you Define Progress?
97 - Arusha, Tanzania 2002
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Pastor Ntakirutimana
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Missionaries for Justice
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The Geneva of Africa
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Verdicts on Rwanda
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Who goes to Africa?
163 - Kisumu, Kenya 2004
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The Nyanza Club
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Circumcising Africa
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Scientific Life
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The Uncertain Business of Doing Good
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Leaving Africa
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Notes
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Selected Bibliography
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