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Economy: Africa Final Exam Summary Notes Week 1-12 (Readings and Lecture Notes)

N. Bernards “The internationalization of labour politics in Africa” in Critical African Studies 7 (2015) pp. 7-25. M. Gallien Understanding Informal Economies in North Africa. From Law and Order to Social Justice, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (2018). ILO, Report on employment in Africa (Re-Africa), ILO Geneva 2020.

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 11 “Demography Urbanisation and Inequality” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 207-221. F.P. Yatta “Urbanization in Africa: Trends, Regional Specificities, and Challenges” in International and Transnational Perspectives on Urban Systems, C. Rozenblat et al. eds. Springer (2018) pp. 317-339. van Noorlos, F. and M. Kloosterboer. 2018. “Africa’s New Cities: The Contested Future of Urbanization.” Urban Stu...

S. Moyo, P. Jha and P. Yeros, “Introduction” in The Scramble for Land and Natural Resources in Africa, Springer (2015) pp. 3-30 Y. Berriane, ch. 3 “Reforming Gendered Property Rights: The Case of Collective Land in Morocco” in Women and Social Change in North Africa: What Counts as Revolutionary? D.H. Gray and N. Sonneveld, eds. CUP (2017) pp. 69-90.

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 13 “World Trade and Late Industrialization” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 239-262. E. Owusu-Sekyere, ch. 40 “The Political Economy of Industrialization in Africa” in The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy, S. O. Oloruntoba, T. Falola, eds. Palgrave (2020) pp. 739-756.

FAO, ch. 1 “Introduction” and ch. 2 “Agriculture, food security and nutrition” in Agriculture food and nutrition for Africa, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 1997: http://www.fao.org/3/w0078e/w0078e00.htm A. Joya “Food Sovereignty and the Struggle for Socio‐economic Justice in North Africa” in Development and change 52 (2021) pp. 202-213.

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 5 “Conflict, War and State Fragility” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 77-93. P.T. Zeleza “Introduction: The Causes & Costs of War in Africa. From Liberation Struggles to the ‘War on Terror’”, in The Roots of African Conflicts The Causes and Costs, A. Nhema and P.T. Zeleza, eds. OSSREA and James Currey (2009) pp. 1-34. Case study: Mercenaries in Africa: https://africanarguments.org/2020/06/making-akilling-i...

A summary of the reading notes from week 7 to week 12 for the Economy: Africa Final Exam.

Summary of Week 1-12 for Politics: Africa

A summary of: - Babatunde Fagbayibo, “From OAU to AU: Rethinking Supranational Governance in Africa”, in Oloruntoba and Falola, The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development (London: Palgrave, 2018), chapter 47. - Rita Kiki Edozie, “Pan-Africanism is Africa’s Third Way: The Cultural Relevance of African Political”, in Oloruntoba and Falola, The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development (London: Palgrave, 2018), chapter 48. - Lectu...

A Summary of - Adetutu Omotoso, “Media and Politics in Africa”, in Oloruntoba and Falola, The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development (London: Palgrave, 2018), chapter 33. - Lecture notes

A sumary of - Susan Thomson, Whispering Truth to Power: The Everyday Resistance of Rwandan Peasants to PostGenocide Reconciliation, African Affairs, 110/440 (2011), 439-456. - Optional reading 1: Why Infrapolitics Matters 77 - Optional reading 2: Infrapolitics and Mobilizations: A response by James C. Scott - Lecture Notes

A summary of - Jo-Ansie van Wyk, “Political Parties and Democracy in Africa”, in Oloruntoba and Falola, The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development (London: Palgrave, 2018), chapter 29. - Carolien van Ham and Staffan Lindberg, “Elections: The Power of Elections in Multi-party Africa”, in Nic Cheeseman, Institutions and Democracy in Africa, (Cambridge University Press, 2018), chapter 9. - Lecture notes

A summary of - Alumona and Nnaemeka Azomn, “Politics of Identity and the Crisis of Nation-Building in Africa”, in Oloruntoba and Falola, The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development (Palgrave, 2018), chapter 17. - Ottoh, Ferdinand O. “Ethnic Identity and Conflicts in Africa”, in Oloruntoba and Falola, The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development (London: Palgrave, 2018), chapter 20. + Lecture notes

*** not sure how important these readings are as exam content in my opinion, but perhaps a nice background. A Summary of Heather Deegan, Africa Today: Culture, Economics, Religion, Security (Routledge, 2009), chapter 2 “Religion”. J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, “Pentecostalism and the Transformation of the African Christian Landscape”, in Martin Lindhardt, Pentecostalism in Africa: Presence and Impact of Pneumatic Christianity in Postcolonial Societies (Brill, 2014), chapter 4. ...

This is a complete summary of Week 6-12. Ideal if you haven't done the readings or need refreshing.

Reading One: Gender and Governance SOURCE: Agbalajobi, “Gender and Governance”, in Oloruntoba and Falola, The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development (Palgrave, 2018), chapter 31. SUMMARY: summarizes ~13 pages into 5. Reading Two: African Youth Integration in Politics SOURCE: Mamadou Faye, African Youth Integration in Politics. SUMMARY: summarizes 7 double-column pages into 4 pages.

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 9 “Debt… and Déjà Vu?” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 169-184. P. Gakunu “Reforming the Financial System in Sub-Saharan Africa: The (Long) Way Ahead” in Finance & Bien Commun 28-29 (2007) pp. 139-146. Wafik Grais “Islamic Finance in North Africa” in The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2, C. Monga and J. Yifu Lin, eds. OUP (2015) online. (NOT EXAM MATERIAL 2022)

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 8 “The International Aid System” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 131-167. S. Amin, ch. 5 “Aid for development” in Aid to Africa: Redeemer or Coloniser? S Amin et al., eds. Pambazuka Press (2009) pp. 59-75. Other reader report reading too: Jonathan Glennie. 2008. The Trouble with aid. Why less could mean more for Africa. London & New York: Zed Books. o Chapter 9: What is to be done? (pp.123-143)

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 7 “The Political Economy of Policy Reform” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 113-129. A. El-Sayed El-Naggar, ch. 2 “Economic policy: from state control to decay and corruption”, in Egypt: The Moment of Change, R. El-Mahdi and P. Marfleet, eds. Zed Books (2009) pp. 34-50. M. El Mouhoub, “Political Economy of Arab Revolutions: Analysis and Prospects for NorthAfrican Countries”, Mondes en développement, 1...