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The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business
by Graham Hancock
A comprehensive and controversial study of the 60-billion-dollar-a-year world foreign-aid business, Lords of Poverty was a bestseller in hardcover and earned the 1990 H.L. Mencken Award honorable mention for an outstanding book of journalism. Hancock investigates why huge aid projects often fail and demands a response from those in the industry.
Speak Rwanda: A Novel
by Julian R. Pierce
SPEAK RWANDA is the powerful story of ten people - Hutu and Tutsi, civilians and soldiers, mothers, politicians, and orphaned children - as they attempt to survive one of the most disturbing massacres since the Second World War.But the novel is not a story of war; instead it documents the experiences of the people who lived before, during, and after such an event.Through their individual voices we come to fully... (more)