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The history of humanitarian intervention has often overlooked Africa. This book brings together perspectives from history, cultural studies, international relations, policy, and non-governmental organizations to analyze the themes, continuities and discontinuities in Western humanitarian engagement with Africa.

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Foreword; Jennifer Welsh Introduction: Enduring Humanitarianisms in Africa; Bronwen Everill and Josiah Kaplan 1. Freetown, Frere Town, and the Kat River Settlement: Nineteenth Century Humanitarian Intervention and Precursors to Modern Refugee Camps; Bronwen Everill 2. Public Health or Public Good? Humanitarian Agendas and the Treatment of Leprosy in Uganda; Kathleen 3. Contraband Charity: German Humanitarianism in Contemporary Kenya; Nina Berman 4. ´Reading´ British Armed Humanitarian Intervention in Sierra Leone, 2000-2002; Josiah Kaplan 5. Humanitarian Intervention in the Horn of Africa; Christopher Clapham 6. The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Land of Humanitarian Interventions; Claude Kabemba 7. Humanitarian Aspects of Interventions by the United Nations in Southern Africa; Christopher Saunders 8. The Nigerian Civil War and ´Humanitarian Intervention´; Michael Aaronson 9. Building State Effectiveness: Evolving Donor Approaches to Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa; Claire Leigh 10. Beyond Humanitarian Imperialism: The dubious origins of ´Humanitarian Intervention´ and some rules for its future; Richard Drayton Conclusion; Bronwen Everill and Josiah Kaplan

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Michael Aaronson, University of Surrey, UK Nina Berman, The Ohio State University, USA Christopher Clapham,, Cambridge University, UK Richard Drayton, King´s College London, UK Bronwen Everill, Warwick University, UK Claude Kabemba, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Josiah Kaplan, Independent Scholar, UK Claire Leigh, Overseas Development Institute, UK Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town, South Africa Kathleen Vongsathorn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany Jennifer Welsh, Oxford University, UK.

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