Michael Jennings is a lecturer and researcher in East African politics, and the politics of development. A major focus of his work has been on the role of voluntary agency activity in development in East Africa, including NGOs, missions and faith-based organizations more widely. He is interested in the multiple roles which ""development"" as a process and as an idea takes on, and the synergies between power, politics and development in the North and South. He has worked extensively on the role of civil society in development, and has research interests in health issues in sub-Saharan Africa.
"Jennings has written an interesting book dealing with the role of
NGOs in development, focusing on the role of Oxfam in Tanzania. I
highly recommend it. Given the increasing role played by Northern
NGOs in the promotion of civil society and development in the
global South, it is a book that could have been written about NGO
work in any country in the developing world."
"Marked by crisp prose and solid judgement throughout, Surrogates
of the State makes an important contribution to both the history of
post-colonial Tanzania and the historical study of NGOs
generally."
"Michael Jennings opens the doors of Tanzania s development process
and of Oxfam s essential contributions to it. NGOs are neither a
panacea nor a villain as this empirically-grounded and readable
book makes clear. Numerous examples of concrete ways to overcome
structural and ideological constraints - of governments and of
private agencies - are visible for practitioners and scholars
alike."
"This book enhances our knowledge of a particularly important
period in post-independence Tanzania and should be of interest to
anyone interested in the challenges facing NGOs working in the
development field in Africa."
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