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The Uses of Haiti
If you want to understand anything about Haiti, you must read this book. Paul Farmer is brilliant, simply brilliant, and this book takes us for an informative trip back in[…]
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Witness to War
I stumbled onto this book serendipitously, browsing on Amazon for books related to books related to some book on El Salvador that I’d enjoyed. From a literary standpoint it’s not[…]
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Rural Development
This is a brilliant but slim work from Robert Chambers. Occasionally I stumble upon a text nearly as old as I am, sitting on someone’s shelf, out of print for[…]
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Travesty in Haiti
This book is either the biggest fraud or the most honest accounting of corruption on development in Haiti that I’ve ever come across. The stories recounted within are so unbelievable[…]
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Dust from our Eyes
Joan Baxter is a journalist and anthropologist probably best known for her BBC World Service reporting from Africa. Her 2008 book, Dust from our Eyes, came to my attention after[…]