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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
FIRST SEMESTER, 2018/2019
COURSE OUTLINE AND READING LIST
LECTURER: Professor Ransford
Gyampo
COURSE OUTLINE AND
READINGS
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COURSE
TITLE
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STRATEGIES FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
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COURSE
CODE
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POLI 356
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COURSE
CREDITS
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3
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PURPOSE
AND OBJECTIVES
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Welcome to POLI 316: Strategies of
African Development. The Course begins with a thorough examination of the
challenges facing contemporary sub-Saharan African development and a
comprehensive review of leading explanations (with particular emphasis on the
two rival theories of under-development – Dependency and Modernization
Theory) given for perceived failures and successes. The second part identifies
and analyzes the main strategies adopted for overcoming the challenges facing
African development. The experience of Ghana (and other African countries) is
analyzed in detail to illustrate the strengths and gains, weaknesses and
challenges associated with various developmental options. Some of the options
for African development that may be interrogated include Import Substitution
Industrialization, Structural Adjustment Programmes, NEPAD, Millennium
Development Goals, Debt Cancellation or HIPC Initiative, Regional Integration
and Political Conditionalities (demand for democracy and good governance),
etc,
By the end of the Course students should be able to state and explain at
least five challenges to development that confronted African states at the
time of independence in the 1960s; identify and explain at least two theories
of under-development; examines which of the theories of under-development
best explains the status of African countries and give justification for your
choice; explain the strengths, weaknesses, trade-offs and prospects
associated with at least four developmental strategies pursued by African
countries since independence; and explain the linkage or otherwise between
Democracy, Good Governance (Political Conditionalities) and Development.
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OFFICE
LOCATION
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Department of Political
Science, University of Ghana, Room 7
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OFFICE
HOURS
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Mondays: 9.30am – 4.30pm
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EMAIL
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LECTURE
PERIOD & VENUE
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Wednesdays 13.30 -15;20 @ JQB
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WEEK
NO.
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LECTURE
TOPIC
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TUTORIALS
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ASSESSMENT
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1
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The Socio-Economic Dimensions of the African Development Challenge
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Teaching/Graduate Assistants
to assist students in defining the socio-economic challenges that confronted
Africa soon after independence
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2
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The Political Dimensions of
the African Development Challenge
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Teaching/Graduate Assistants
to assist students in defining the political and governance challenges that
confronted Africa soon after independence
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3
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Overview of Theoretical
Explanations to African Under-Development
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Students to identify and
discuss the various strategies that can bring about African development
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4
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The Modernization
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Student to discuss the main
arguments of the Modernization Theory
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5
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The Dependency Theories
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Student to discuss the main
arguments of the Dependency Theory
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6
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Overview of Strategies for
African Development:
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Students to discuss other
theoretical explanations to African Under-Development with the guidance of
Teaching/Graduate Assistants
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7
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Import Substitution
Industrialization
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Students to be guided in
discussing the main arguments of ISI
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Interim Assessment (30%)
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8
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Structural Adjustment
Programme
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Students to be guided in
discussing the main arguments of SAP
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9
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Application of Political
Conditionalities
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Students to be guided in
discussing the relationship between Democracy, Good Governance and
Development
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10
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The Legos Plan of Action
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Students to examine the main
issues raised by the Lagos Plan of Action as a development strategy
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11
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The New Partnership for
African Development (NEPAD)
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Students to discuss the new
ideas and strategies for development as propounded by NEPAD
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12
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The HIPC/Debt
forgiveness/Reparation
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Students to discuss debt forgiveness
and reparation as development
strategies
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13
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The MDGs and SDGs
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Students to critically examine
the MDGs contributions to African development. Students must be guided in discussing the
various development policy prescriptions of the SDGs
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14
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STUDENT REVISION
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15-17
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EXAMINATION (70%)
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COURSE READINGS
- Handelman,
Howard (2006) The Challenge of
Third World Development, Fourth Edition, (New Jersey: Prentice
Hall).
- Ewusi,
K.(ed) (2013) Policies and
Options for Ghana’s Economic Development, Third Edition, (Legon:
ISSER).
- UNDP Human Development Report 2009.
- Rimmer,
Douglas (1991) Africa: 30 Years
On, (London: James Currey)
- Sandbrook,
Richard (2000) Closing the Cycle:
Democratization and Development in Africa (London: Zed Books).
- Collier,
Paul (2007) The Bottom Billion:
Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It,
(New York: Oxford University Press).
- Kousari,
Kamran (2006) “Africa’s Woes- Homegrown or Externally Induced” Europe’s World, (Spring ) pp
157-162.
- Easterly,
William “ The Utopian Nightmare”, Foreign
Policy (September/ October 2005, pp58-64.
- Cooper,
Frederick (2002) Africa since
1940: The Past of the Present,. (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press).
- Gyampo, R.E.V. (2015). “Dealing with
Ghana’s Winner-Takes-All Politics: A Case for Proportional
Representation?” The Journal of
Social Sciences Research, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp 41-46.
- Gyampo, R.E.V. (2015). “Dealing with
Winner-Takes-All Politics in Ghana: The Case for National Development
Planning” Governance, Vol. 20,
No. 1 (January/February), pp 1-11.
- Gyampo, R.E.V. (2016) The State of Political Institutions
in Ghana, Revised Edition, Tema: Digibooks Publishing Limited.
- Kwakye, J.K. (2013) “The Price of
Leadership Failings in Ghana” Legislative
Alert, Vol. 20, No. 5 (September/October), pp 1-4.
- Roxborough,
Ian (1988) Theories of Under
Development. (London: Macmillan Education Ltd).
- Frank,
Andre, Gunder (1972) "The Development of Underdevelopment," in
James D. Cockcroft, Andre Gunder Frank, and Dale Johnson, eds., Dependence
and Underdevelopment.
(New York: Anchor Books).
- Lockwood,
Mathhew (2005) The State They’re
In: An Agenda for International Action on Poverty in Africa,
(Warwickshire: International Technology Development Group Ltd).
- The Lagos Plan of Action for the Economic
Development of Africa, 1980-2000,(1980)
(Geneva: ILO).
- World Bank,(1981) Accelerated
Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda, (Washington, DC: World Bank).
- The
Africa Commission (2005) “Our Common Future”, Report of the Africa Commission
- Rothchild,
Donald ed. (1991), Ghana: The
Political Economy of Recovery (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers)
- Gyimah-Boadi
E. ed.(1993), Ghana Under PNDC
Rule, ( Dakar: CODESRIA Book Series).
- Leftwich,
Andrian (1993) “Governance, Democracy and Development in Third Word”, Third World Quarterly, Vol.
14. No. 3 pp 605-624.
- The Millennium Development Goals 2000
- The
Sustainable Development Goals, 2016
- Armah,
Bartholomew (2001), “Should Ghana Go HIPC”? IEA Legislative Alert Series, Vol. 1, No. 3 (March) pp
1-15.
- Ayittey,
George (2005) “NEPAD and Africa’s Leaking Begging Bowl”, IEA Policy Analysis Series Vol.
3 No. 5. (February) pp 1-13
REQUIREMENTS/ GENERAL INFORMATION
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Extensive Reading (at least 70%
of the required reading materials) is a MUST
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There would be 13 weeks of
lectures and students must endeavor to attend all lectures. The course shall
not be done by correspondence.
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Students must be punctual in
attending all lectures. No lateness would be tolerated
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Students MUST attend tutorials
regularly and make MEANINGFUL contributions to class discussions.
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An Interim Assessment would be
conducted and would constitute 30% of the final grades of students. The final
exam would account for 70% of students’ grade.
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information on Grading Scale, students may refer to Undergraduate Handbook
for details.
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Students MUST comport themselves
during lectures. No acts of indiscipline such as ringing of mobile phones and
all other acts that could distract the attention of other students while
lectures are on-going would be tolerated
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