Afrikan Development Studies 2012 - 11 - 27 LECTURE 4

Afrikan Development Studies 2012 11 27 LECTURE 4

Topic:

Pre-Colonialism, Colonialism, Neo --Colonialism & the Roots of Afrikan Underdevelopment

• Slave Trade: Technological stagnation and distortion of the Afrikan Economy
• Emergence of the international division of labour [Imperialism/Globalization]
• Capitalist Integration and Exploitation of Afrika into Global Western controlled economy
• Imperialism and colonialism and its implications for Afrika
• Decolonization process, Neo-Colonialism in different regions: Role of the founding of UN in Neo-colonialism
• Regional Cooperation in Afrika: OAU/AU, ECOWAS, EAC, SADC, COMESA and their role in African Underdevelopment
• New structures of Neo-Colonialism/Imperialism: Development Aid, indebtedness, IMF, WTO ICC

Readings:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa [Walter Rodney]

Chapter 3 -- Africa's Contribution to European Capitalist Development-The Pre-colonial Period

Chapter 4 -- Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment -- to 1885

Chapter 5 -- Africa's Contribution to the Capitalist Development of Europe-The Colonial Period

Chapter 6 -- Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa


Black Power: A Moral and Political Imperative [Dr. Amos N. Wilson]



Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi

Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics
Associate Director, Research & Publication
Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor East Afrikan Journal of Research
Tumaini University Iringa University College
Tanzania, East Afrika


Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi a citizen of the United States of America and expatriate resident of the United Republic of Tanzania. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is a graduate of Grambling State University, Grambling, LA with a Bachelors of Arts in History and Masters of Public Administration in Public Administration with emphasis in Health Service Administration and of Southern University A & M College with an earned Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Policy Analysis from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is an Afrikan-centered educator, public policy analyst, public administration scholar, political scientist, and public lecturer on Afrikan education, history, economics, politics and spirituality emphasizing systems design and strategic planning in the development of Afrikan political, military, social and economic agency. He has served the Afrikan community as an Afrikan American Studies, Geography and Economics teacher in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System of the United States for nine years, as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Southern University A & M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for one year and as Associate Director of Research and Publication, Editor of the Journal of East Afrikan Research and Lecturer on the Faculties of Education, Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Business and Development Studies at the University of Iringa in the United Republic of Tanzania, East Afrika for two years. The guiding influences for Dr. Dukuzumurenyi have been the works of Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochanan, Dr. Marimba Ani, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Minister Malcolm X, Stephen Biko, Shaka Zulu, Mangaliso Sobukwe & Ptahhotep to name only a select few.