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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
SEMESTER 2018/2019 ACADEMIC YEAR
COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Code and Title: POLI 642(STRATEGIES OF
DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA)
Course Credit :4 Credits
Lecture Period(s)
and Venue: Mondays(14:00hrs-16:00hrs)/Room 18
Prerequisites: Not Applicable
Course Instructor :
- Lloyd G. Adu Amoah, Ph.D.
- Office Location: Department of Political
Science, Room 15
- Office Hours : By Appointment
- E-mail: lgamoah@ug.edu.gh
“They train you
to be paralyzed and then they sell you crutches”-Eduardo Galeano
Course Overview
The Course begins with a thorough overview and
examination of the idea of development by tracing the historical evolution of
the notion. This will then segue into a comprehensive review of some of the
dominant rationalizations proffered for the persistent challenges hindering the
development of contemporary sub-Saharan African nations. The second part
identifies and analyzes some of the main strategies adopted[e.g. Import
Substitution Industrialization(ISI), Economic Recovery Programme/Structural
Adjustment Programme(ERP/SAP), the New Partnership for African
Development(NEPAD), the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative(HIPC),
Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs),
the Information Communication Technology(ICT) Revolution, etc] for overcoming
the challenges facing African development. The experience of Ghana (and other
African countries) will be utilized to illustrate the strengths, weaknesses and
limitations associated with these developmental options. The course will end
with reflections on some emergent conceptions of development (and development strategy)
and Africa’s possible response(s) to these.
Course Objectives
This Course, will concern itself with :
a. exposing students to a nuanced and comprehensive appreciation
of development as an essentially contested idea.
b. the ways in which the local and international contexts shape
and impact African development attempts and trajectories.
c.. the theoretical and empirical aspects(historical and
contemporary) of Africa’s development strategies and their strengths, weaknesses, trade-offs and
prospects.
d. a selection of emergent development strategies and the
possible ways in which Africa can
respond , harness or even transcend
these.
Learning Outcomes
The Course seeks:
1. To improve
critical thinking via intense and
very close reading, reflection, critique, analysis and synthesis and exercising
the ability to contemplate from multiple and even disparate lenses and
frameworks.
2. To develop
strong communication skills, both verbal and written, by closely engaging
assigned texts, participating in discussions and self -directed research.
Weekly Schedule
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Course Title
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Strategies
of Development in Africa
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POLI 642
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Lecturer
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Dr. Lloyd G. Adu Amoah
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Assessment
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A series of assessments will
constitute 30% of the overall assessment of the course. The final examination
will constitute 70% of overall assessment.
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Week No.
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Date
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Lecture Topics
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Venue
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1
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4th Feb. 2019
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§ Course
admin. Issues/Overview of syllabus
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2
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11th Feb. 2019
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Just
what is development? (I)
Readings
and Course Preparation Assignment 1
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3
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18th Feb,2019
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Just
what is development? (II)
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4
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25th Feb, 2019
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Readings and Course Preparation Assignment 2
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5
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4th March, 2019
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African Underdevelopment Theories-Modernization Theories.
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6
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11th
March,2019
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African Underdevelopment Theories –Dependency Theories
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7
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18th
March,2019
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Theories of African Underdevelopment- Postcolonial School
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8
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25th
March,2019
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African
Development Strategies-The Statist
Approach
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9
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4th April, 2019
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African
Development Strategies- Neoliberalism
and its Spin-Offs
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10
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11th April, 2019
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African
Development Strategies- From NEPAD to
SDGs
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11
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18th April, 2019
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Development
and Africa’s Response in the
Post-Industrial Age
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12
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25th
April, 2019
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Development, Africa and Post-development thought-Seminar
Style
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13
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May 1-5,2019
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Revision Week
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14
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May 12-27, 2019
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Examinations
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Course Texts
A. Just what is Development?
Diop, C.A. (1978). Black Africa: the Economic and Cultural
Basis of a Federated State. -Illinois, Chicago and Trenton, New Jersey:
Lawrence Hill Books. Chapter 1.
Mazower, M.(2012). Governing
the world: the history of an idea. New York: Penguin Press. Chapter 10.
Rist, G.(2014). The history of development :from Western origins to global faith. London and New York: Zed
Books. Chapter 4.
Power, M. (2014). Enlightenment and the era of modernity. In
Desai, V. and Potter, R.B. (eds.) The
Companion to Development Studies, 3nd Ed, (London: Routledge)
pp. 154-160.
Bacon, F. (1860), “Novum
Organum,” in Charles Hirschfeld, ed., Classics
of Western Civilization, New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc.p.1-13
Szirmai, A. (2005). The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development:
An Introduction. Cambridge, London: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1.
Michael L. McNulty,
“The Contemporary Map of Africa,” in Africa,
edited by Phyllis M. Martin and Patrick O’Meara. Bloomingdale: Indiana
University Press, 1995.
B. Theories of African
Under-Development
Kiros, T. (2004), “Frantz Fanon (1925-1965)” in Kwasi
Wiredu,(ed.),A Companion to African
Philosophy, Massachusetts, London,Victoria: Blackwell pp.216-224.
Frank, Andre, Gunder, "The Development of
Underdevelopment," in James D. Cockcroft, Andre Gunder Frank, and Dale
Johnson, eds., Dependence and Underdevelopment. (New York: Anchor
Books, 1972).
T.S. Santos (1970). “The Structure of Dependence,” The American Economic Review, 60(2):
231-236.
Rostow, W.W.(1959). “The Stages of Economic Growth,” The
Economic History Review (12):1–16.
Chinweizu(2010). Pan-Africanism and a Black Superpower —The
21st century agenda. Paper presented at the CBAAC conference on
Pan-Africanism, Abuja, September, 2010.
Lubeck, P. “The Crisis
of African Development: Conflicting Interpretations and Resolutions” Annual Review of Sociology 18:
519-540.
Amoah, L.G. A.(2011). Public Policy Formation in Africa in the
Wake of the Global financial Meltdown: Building Blocks for a New Mind in a
Multi-polar World. In African
Engagements: Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world. Edited by T.
Dietz, K. Havnevik, M. Kaag, and T. Oestigaard. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill. http://www.brill.nl/african-engagements
Rosenstein-Rodan, P.N.(1943). “Problems of
Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe,”
The Economic Journal, 53(210/211): 202-211.
North, D.(1998).Understanding
Economic Change. In Transforming Post-Communist Political-Economies.
Edited by Joan M.
Nelson, Charles Tilly, and Lee Walker. Washington, D.C.:National Academy Press.
C. African Development Strategies
Mkandiware, T. (2010). From Maladjusted States
to Democratic Developmental States. In Constructing
a Developmental State in South Africa: potentials and challenges. Edited by
Omano Edigheji. Cape-Town, South Africa: HSRC Press. pp 59-81.
Fosu, A.G. and Ogunleye, E.K. (2015). African
Growth Strategies: The Past, Present, and
Future. In The Oxford Handbook of Africa
and Economics: Volume 2: Policies and Practices. Edited by Célestin Monga
and Justin Yifu Lin. Oxford Handbook Onliine. DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687107.013.002
Szirmai,A.(2005). The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development: An
Introduction. Cambridge, London: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 8.
Amoah, L.G.A. Economic
Policy Formation in Ghana’s Fourth Republic: Is the Budgeting Process a
Ritualized Anti-National Transformation Process? In Haruna, P. and Vyas-Doorgapersad,
S.(Eds.) Public Budgeting in African Nation: Fiscal Analysis in Development
Management.. New York, Oxford:
Routledge. pp.86-113
Dumenal, G. and Dominique, L.(2005 ). “The
NeoLiberal(Counter-)Revolution” in Alfredo Saad-Filho and Deborah Johnston,
eds., NeoLiberalism : A Critical Reader, London,
Michigan: Pluto Press.pp.9-19.
Fosu, A.G.(2012). Ghana: The Development Record and the
Washington Consensus. In The Oxford Companion to the economics of
Africa. Edited by Ernest Aryeetey et al.London: Oxford University Press. Pp.494-498.
Cammack, P.(2016). “The UNDP, the World Bank and Human
Development through the World Market,” Development
Policy Review, 0(0):1-19.
D. African Development
and Prospects for the Future
Amoah, L.G.A.(2015)The
Rise of Telcos and Africa's Knowledge Society: What Have Telchambs Got to Do
With It?. In L. Amoah (Ed.), Impacts of the Knowledge Society on
Economic and Social Growth in Africa (pp. 112-133). Hershey, PA: IGI
Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5844-8.ch007 http://www.igi-global.com/book/impacts-knowledge-society-economic-social/94906
Bell, D. On the Post-Industrial. Extract from his work The
Coming of the Post-Industrial: A Venture in Social Forecasting. New York:
Basic Books(1973)
The Economist (October 4-10,2014).
“Emerging Economies: Arrested Development” in A Special Report on Technology and the World Economy, p11-13. The
Economist 433(8907).
Rees, M.(2015). Cheer up, the
Post-human World is Coming. Weekend
Financial Times. p.9
Castells, M. (2010), “Globalization,
Networking, Urbanizations: Reflections on the Spatial Dynamics of the
Information Age,” Urban Studies,
47(13): 2737-2745
Course Requirements
1. Students are required to be conversant with at
least 85% of the relevant reading materials on the suggested reading
list above. Self-led extensive reading is a MUST for the course. The
lecturer will assist where possible with suggested texts. Evidence of diligent
reading will contribute to grading.
2. Students are also required to regularly attend
Tutorials and make meaningful contributions to discussions as this would count
towards their grading in the end of semester examination.
3. There would be 13 weeks of Lectures and
students must endeavour to attend lectures regularly.
4. Course Preparation Assignments (CPAs) are directed at ensuring that students read
and reflect(individually or as group assignment) on the texts and cases
assigned for the class and serve as preparation for class discussions. CPAs
will involve write ups on assigned texts and case(s) reflections based on
rubrics provided by the instructor. These will be graded (in addition to other
forms of assessments) and be part of your 30% interim assessment.
[1] This syllabus is not cast in stone. The instructor reserves the
right to alter content as an when the need arises.
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