Michael Maren

This book is about aid and charity - aid and charity as an industry, as
religion, as a self-serving system that sacrifices its own practitioners and
intended beneficiaries in order that it may survive and grow. Much of this
book is centered in Somalia, but it draws on the author's experiences with aid
organizations over nineteen years around Africa: in places such as Kenya,
burkina Faso, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, and Ethiopia.

Lots of thoughtful analysis with an intelligent writing style. his is far more than a one-sided point of view....governments and the ngo community really do not have much support if even a third of this is true. Even though the primary subject is Somalia and even though the subject is 20-30 years old, the book was excellent and exceedingly worth the time to read.