Well, you'll have to be able to read Finnish to enjoy this book.

Apart from that, it was a very insightful and irreverent look at Africa, based on the author's five successive trips to various parts of the continent in the process of writing this book. He also comes up with interesting policy recommendations for development aid. He is very critical of ODA as it is practiced now. However, unlike some other critics(like Dambisa Moyo), he does not suggest abolishing aid, just making it m More...