Domestic Politics and Drought Relief in Africa
Munemo, Ngonidzashe
Ngonidzashe Munemo challenges the conventional wisdom that African governments lack the technical capacity and political will to respond to drought and the threat of famine. Through a comparative analysis of three politically disparate countries - Botswana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe - he demonstrates that differences in the ways that governments face similar drought-induced food crisis are the result not of incompetence, but of rational political co...