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Although African governments are increasingly looking for alternative sources to finance their agendas, they currently still depend significantly on traditional donors. Could we be about to see a period of dynamic change in 22 Introduction an aid system that has been rather static and gradually building on itself for so long? Our cases reveal some recent signs of a revival in the negotiating capital of the Ghanaian and Zambian governments, and a political distancing of these governments from their traditional donors and sponsors.