PIA 2501
Development Policy and Management
Eastern and Southern Africa
Area studies work reflects 50% of Grade for each assignment. This work is reflected in an oral report and the group paper which is to be turned in at the end of the semester. Half of the area studies grade will be on the presentation and half will focus on the written paper.
The area presentations will focus on the pool of readings presented below. Each presentation will focus on the status of "Development Management" in your region, from a historical and a cultural perspective, and be based on selected "common" readings from the syllabus and how they relate to the chosen geographical readings listed below.
Each regional group is to prepare a lively, literate presentation on the area readings assigned to you below that you will share with your colleagues. It should be noted that readings on each group’s geographical area that appear in the general readings are also the responsibility of the group to cover. Please note: DO NOT SUMMARIZE EACH AUTHOR IN YOUR PRESENTATION. You will be down graded if you do this. Each group will be limited to 25 minutes for their presentations. The time limitations will be strictly enforced.
The “group” area paper (20-25 pages) will be derived out of the oral presentation and as is the case with the oral presentation should focus on the status of “Development Management” in the group’s geographical region. The paper should be based on selected readings listed in the syllabus and those suggested below.At a minimum the report should cover the bulk of the readings listed below though groups can of course, but are not requiredto, read additional material, particularly on countries not covered in the reading below. The group paper is to be turned into the instructor at the end of the semester. For both oral and written presentations, appropriate, creative and interesting audio-visual tools may be used.
Suggested Readings
Peter Abrahams, "Racial Oppression," in Philip Green and Michael Walzer, The Political Imagination in Literature (New York: The Free Press, 1969), pp. 451-456.
Charles Allen, Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century (New York: Time Warner, 1991), Chapters 6-10.
Gretchen Bauer and Scott D. Taylor, Politics in Southern Africa: State and Society in Transition (Boulder: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2005), Selected chapters on countries of interest.
York Bradshaw and Stephen N. Ndegwa, eds. The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa (Bloomington: IndianaUniversity Press, 2000. Selected Chapters on countries of interest.
Michael Edwards and David Hulme, Beyond the Magic Bullet: NGO Performance and Accountability in the Post-Cold War World (West Hartford, CN: Kumarian Press, 1996), , Chapters 11 and12.
James Fox, White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll, (New York: Vintage Books, 1998), Chapters 1-4
Sir Ralph Furse, Au Cuparius: Recollections of a Recruiting Officer (London: Oxford University Press, 1962), pp. 216-264.
Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress (New York: Basic Books, 2000), Chapters 6, 10, and 11
Martin Meredith, The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair, (New York: Public Affairs Perseus Group, 2005), Chapters 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33 and 34
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004), pp. 392-430.
Marina Ottaway and Thomas Carothers, Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000), Chapter 4
Louis A. Picard, "Administration Attitudes and Time in Bechuanaland and Botswana," SICA Occasional Papers Series, American Society of Public Administration (Fall 1984).
Louis A. Picard, The Politics of Development in Botswana: A Model for Success? (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987), Chapters 1, 3, 7.
Louis A. Picard, The State of the State: Institutional Transformation and Political Change in South Africa(Johannesburg, South Africa and Edison, NJ: WitwatersrandUniversity Press and Transaction Publishers, 2005/2006), Chapter 1-3,
Louis A. Picard, "Traditionalism, the Bureaucracy and Local Administration: Continuity and Change in Swaziland," Journal of African Studies vol. 13, no. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 116-125.
Norman Rush, Whites: Stories(New York: Vintage Books, 1992).
Ngugi wa Thiongo, “A Meeting in the Dark,” inBarbara H. Solomon, ed. Other Voices, Other Vistas (New York: Mentor, 1992), pp. 95-110.
Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle, Religion & Politics In East Africa: The Period Since Independence (Columbus, OH: Ohio University Press, 1995). Selected chapters on countries of interest.
Joseph N. Weatherby, et. al., The Other World: Issues and Politics of the Developing World (New York: Longman, 2000), Chapter 6.
M. Crawford Young, The Politics of Cultural Pluralism (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976), Chapter 5