The following is borrowed from a brilliant list compiled by Ryan Briggs, to which I have added several academic and fiction books I feel are particularly worthwhile. If you have other suggestions please don't hesitate to shout. Goodness knows there's enough material out there to keep us reading until the cows come home (or sheep, if you're in England!).
Articles:
- Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, & James Robinson (2005) “Institutions as the fundamental cause of long-run growth”
- Alesina, Alberto & Beatrice Weder (2002), “Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?” American Economic Review, 92(4), 1126-37.
- Alesina, Alberto & David Dollar (2000), “Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?” Journal of Economic Growth, 5(1), 33-64.
- Banerjee, Abhijit and Esther Duflo (2006). “The Economic Lives of the Poor,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(1), 141-167.
- Barkan, Joel & David Gordon (1998) “Democracy in Africa”
- Birdsall, Nancy (?) “Seven deadly sins of donor agencies…” (or something like that, it is on the CGD website)
- Bloom, David & Jeff Sachs (1998) “Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa”
- Boyce, James & Léonce Ndikumana (2001) “Is Africa a net creditor? New Estimates of Capital Flight from Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-96”
- Brautigam & Knack (2004) “Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Sharan Africa”
- Chauvin, Nicolas & Aart Kraay (2005) “What has 100 billion dollars worth of debt relief done for low-income countries?”
- Clark, Anne Marie (1995) “Non-governmental organizations and their influence on international society”
- Collier, Paul & Jan Willem Gunning (1999) “What has Africa grown slowly?”
- de Long, Bradford & Barry Eichengreen (1991) “The Marshall Plan: History’s Most Successful Structural Adjustment Program”
- de Waal, Alex (2003) “How will HIV/AIDS transform African governance?”
- Easterly, William & Ross Levine (1997) “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions”
- Easterly, William (2001) “Think Again: Debt Relief”
- Easterly, William (2002) “How did heavily indebted poor countries become heavily indebted? Reviewing two decades of debt relief”
- Easterly, William & Tobias Pfutze, Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 22, No.2, Spring 2008
- Ekeh, Peter (1975). “Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 17(1): 91‐112.
- Emery, James (2003) “Governance and Private Investment in Africa”
- Englebert, Pierre (2000) “Solving the mystery of the AFRICA dummy”
- Englebert, Pierre (1997) “The Contemporary African State: Neither African nor State”
- Finan, Frederico and Claudio Ferraz (2007). “Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil’s Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes,” IZA Discussion Paper No. 2836
- Freeman, Richard & David Lindauer (1999) “Why Not Africa?”
- Glaeser, Edward et al. (2004) “Do Institutions Cause Growth?”
- Gordon, David (1992) “Conditionality in Policy-Based Lending in Africa: USAID Experience”
- Herbst, Jeffery (1990) “The Structural Adjustment of Politics in Africa”
- Kanbur, Ravi (2000) “Aid, Conditionality, and Debt in Africa”
- Kaufman, Daniel & Aart Kraay (2002) “Growth without Governance”
- Kenny, Charles & David Williamson (2001) “What do we know about economic growth? Or, why don’t we know very much?”
- Killick, Tony (2004) “Politics, Evidence, and the New Aid Agenda”
- Krasner, Steven (2004) “Sharing Sovereignty: New Institutions for Collapsed and Failing States”
- Kremer, Michael & Edward Miguel (2007) “Illusion of Sustainability” Quarterly Journal of Economics. vol. 122, issue 3, pages 1007-1065
- Lewis, Peter (1996) “Economic Reform and Political Transition in Africa: The Quest for a Politics of Development”
- Lindauer, David & Lant Printchett (2002) “What’s the Big Idea? The Third Generation of Policies for Economic Growth”
- Mallaby, Sebastian (2004) “NGOs: Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor”
- Mistry, Percy (2000) “Africa’s record of regional co-operation and integration”
- Ndulu, Benno & Stephen O’Connell (1999) Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa”
- Ng, Francis & Alexander Yeats (1996) “Open Economies Work Better: did Africa’s protectionist policies cause its marginalization in world trade?”
- Pritchett, Lant & Lawrence Summers (1996) “Wealthier is Healthier”
- Rogerson, Andrew (2004) “The international aid system 2005-2010: Forces for and against change”
- Simmons, P.J. (1998) “Learning to live with NGOs”
- Shleifer, Andrei and Robert Vishny, (1993). “Corruption,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108(3), 599-617.
- Subramanian, Arvind et al. (2000) “Trade and trade policies in eastern and southern Africa”
- Svensson, Jakob, 2005, “Eight Questions about Corruption,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19:3, 19-42.
- Theobald, Robin (1982 ) “Patrimonialism”
- Van de Walle, Nicolas (2002) “Africa’s Range of Regimes” Journal of Democracy
- Schatzberg, Michael (1993) “Power, Legitimacy, and Democratisation in Africa”
- Weinstein, Jeremy (2005) “Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective”
- Journal of Democracy (1998) - Special Issue on Africa & Journal of Democracy (2001) - Special Issue on Francophone Africa
Books (Academic):
- Bates, Robert (1981) Markets and States in Tropical Africa
- Bates, Robert (2008). When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late‐Century Africa.
- Bauer, Gretchen & Hannah Britton (2006) Women in African Parliaments
- Boone, Catherine (2003) Political Topographies of the African State
- Bratton, Michael & Nicolas Van de Walle (1999) Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transition in Comparative Perspective
- Callaghy, Thomas and John Ravenhill (1993) Hemmed In: Responses to Africa’s Economic Decline
- Collier, Paul (2007). The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
- Cumming, Gordon (2001) Aid to Africa: French and British Policies from the Cold War to the New Millennium
- de Soto, Hernando (1989) The Other Path
- de Soto, Hernando (2000) The Myster of Capital
- Dollar, David (1998) Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why
- Easterly, William (2002) The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
- Easterly, William (2007) The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest have done so much Ill and so Little Goo
- Easterly, William (2008) Reinventing Foreign Aid
- Englebert (?) State Legitimacy and Development in Africa (there is an article on this also)
- Gazvinian, John (2008) Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
- Harford, Tim & Michael Klein (2005) The Market for Aid
- Herbst, Jeffrey (2000) States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
- Hyden, Goran (1983) No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective
- Jackson, Robert & Carl Rosenberb (1982) Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant
- Jackson, Robert (1990) Quasi-States, Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Third World
- Joseph, Richard (2000) State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa
- Lancaster, Carol (2000) Transforming Foreign Aid: US Assistance in the 21st Century
- Landes, David (1998) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why some are rich and some are poor
- Leonard, David and Scott Strauss (2003) Africa’s Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures
- Mamdani, Mahmood (1996) Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
- Meredit, Martin (2005) The Fate of Africa
- Moss, Todd (2007) African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors
- Moyo, Dambisa (2009) Dead Aid: Why Aid is not Working and how there is a Better Way for Africa
- North, Douglas (1990) Institutions, Institutional Change, and Performance
- Nugent, Paul (2004) The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective
- Perkins, Dwight, Steven Radalet & David Lindhauer (2006) Economics of Development
- Posner, Daniel (2005) Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
- Reader, John (1999) Africa: A Biography of the Continent
- Sachs, Jeffrey (2006) The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
- Sen, Amartya (1999) Development as Freedom
- Tangri, Roger (2000) The Politics of Patronage in Africa: Parastatals, Privatization, and Private Enterprise in Africa
- White, Howard, Tony Killick & Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa (2001) African poverty at the Millennium: Causes, Complexities, and Challenges
- Wrong, Michela (2009) It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
- Young, Crawford (?) The African Colonial State in Historical Perspective
Books (Fiction):
- Achebe, Chinua (1958) Things Fall Apart
- Achebe, Chinua (1988) Antills of the Savannah
- Devlin, Larry (2007) Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi (1988) Nervous Conditions
- Fanon, Frantz (1963) The Wretched of the Earth
- Godwin, Peter (2008) When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
- Green, Graham (1948) The Heart of the Matter
- Holman, Michael (2005) Law and Order at Harrod’s
- Marechera, Dambudzo (1993) The House of Hunger
- Naipal, V.S. (1979) A Bend in the River
- Rush, Norman (1991) Mating