Formation/Cours

Our course meets only nine times. Full attendance is very important.

Africa and the 21st Century will explore the dynamics and possibilities of a region encompassing almost 1.3 billion people in 54 nations. The median age of the continent is 19.4. Predicting what the state of Africa will be more than 80 years from now is an impossible task. What we will do is to explore various trajectories, paths, challenges and opportunities.

Meeting 1

Can Africa become Asia? Or, will the 21st century be the era of Africa?

Conflict map

https://www.acleddata.com/dashboard/

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/25/weekinreview/why-africa-can-thrive-like-asia.html

Meeting 2

Africa 50 years from now

https://au.int/sites/default/files/pages/3657-file-agenda2063_popular_version_en.pdf

Meeting 3 – Oral Presentation Topics Decided

Resource rich Africa

Mapping the continent

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2016/10/mapping-africa-natural-resources-161020075811145.html

Blood diamonds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbT_b0obeg8

Meeting 4

Why is Africa poor?

https://www.africanexponent.com/post/billions-lost-in-profits-by-foreign-companies-tax-evasion-1953

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/05/africa-poor-stealing-wealth-170524063731884.html

Poverty – Zambia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNYemuiAOfU

Meeting 5

Downside factors: Governance and Corruption

Scott- Good Governance (handout)

Transparency International https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017?gclid=CjwKCAjwwo7cBRBwEiwAMEoXPHLNoykBUVTHNW1T6EOYFIt47t9ULzzQcCfoxIGtuQc4gjulF3PDUhoC-eAQAvD_BwE

China and Africa

Meeting 6

Aide-Development

Dependency Theory, recolonization

Dead Aid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q2aznfmcYU&t=134s

Meeting 7

Genocide Watch

Rwanda A Preventable Genocide

Video: Shake Hands With Devil; Orbinski, Triage

Meetings 8 & 9 : Oral presentations