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Course Syllabus

Dr. R. Kiki Edozie

Assistant Professor

Global South Studies/African Affairs

Department of Political Science and IR

459 Smith Hall

[email protected], [email protected]

302-831-1939

POSC439/639

PROBLEMS IN AFRICAN POLITICS:

Contemporary Issues in African Affairs

The Liberian Civil War

The state of Post-Cold War & Post- 9/11 world politics is having important implications for

the African continent which is seen to be going through both modernization and post-

modernization simultaneously. By way of introducing the most recent trends in international

African affairs, this course provides its participants with the major themes and polemics that

are central to Africa in world politics. Main topics include the African Crisis, (including the

health crisis and AIDs), the new AU/Nepad, Peace and Conflict in the Great Lakes, Liberia &

Sierra Leone, and the Horn (including the Sudan Peace Process), Post-Apartheid South and

Southern Africa (including Zimbabwe), Wither the Nigerian Giant? Francophone Africa

(including Cote D’Ivoire), and New and Old Gulf Oil.

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Required Texts and Instructional Resources:

1. Akinrrinade, Sola & Amadu Sesay (1998) Africa in the Post Cold War International

System. Pinter. London

2. Khadiagala, Gilbert and Terence Lyons (2001) African Foreign Policies: power and

process. Lynne Rienner. Boulder, London

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4. Edozie, R.Kiki Electronic Resources. Problems in African Politics: Contemporary

Issues in African Affairs (40 articles on library reserve).

Suggested Online Resources http://allAfrica.com

http://AfricaNews.com

http://PambazukaNews.com

Grading Requirements:

1. Participation in Four Seminar Panels (submit one page per seminar

presentation)(1page){20%}

2. Four One Page Policy Response Papers for Public Affairs Roundtable (1 page){10%}

3. Class attendance and participation {10%}

4. Midterm (Select a Topic from International Policy Issues List1; and Write a 5 page

Research Paper on the Topic)(5pages) {20%}

5. Final Short Research Paper (Select a Topic from Public and Political Affairs Country

Case List2; and Write a 8 page Research Paper on the Topic) (8 pages) {40%}

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Calendar of Events:

2/10

Intro to Course

PART ONE:

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY AND AFRICAN AFFAIRS

POST COLD WAR/POST APARTHEID NEW INTERNATIONAL REGIMES

IN AFRICA 2/12

Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System, ‘Africa and the

End of the Cold War’ by Scott Thomas

Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process, ‘ Foreign Policy

Making in Africa: An Introduction’by Khadiagala and Lyons.

2/17

Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources

Werbner and Terence Ranger, Postcolonial Identities in Africa, ‘The African Crisis: context

and interpretation’ by Patrick Chabal

Ali Mazrui, Africa’s International Relations, ‘Toward the Year 2000’

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

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2/19

Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System ‘Old Concepts and

New Challenges in the post-Cold War Era’ by Karin von Hippel

Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process ‘External Relations of

Weak States and Stateless Regions in Africa’ by William Reno

ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND AFRICA

2/24


Darryl Thomas, ‘Between Globalization and Global Apartheid: African Development in the

New Millennium’ in The International Journal of African Studies, Fall 2001

Tandika Mkandawire and Charels Soludo, ‘The African Crisis’in Our Continent, Our

Future, 1998

Guy Martin, ‘The Continued Relevance of Pan-Africanism in the Twenty First Century’ in

Africa in World Politics, 2003

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

2/26

Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System ‘Africa and global

society: marginality, conditionality and conjuncture’by Stephen Wright

Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System ‘Regional and Sub-

Regional Conflict Management Efforts’ by Amadu Sesay

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AFRICA AND THE THIRD WAVE OF DEMOCRACY

3/2 Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System ‘The Re-

Democratization Process in Africa: plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose’by Sola

Akinrinade

Stephen Ndegwa, ‘Kenya: Third Time Luck?’ Journal of Democracy 2003

AFRICA AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

3/4

Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System ‘Africa and the

United Nations’ by Sola Akinrinade


Claude Ake, ‘A Confusion of Agendas’ in Democracy and Development in Africa.

Brookings Institute.

Joseph Stiglitz, ‘Broken Promises’ in Globalization and its Discontents Norten and

Company. 2000

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

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NEW DIRECTIONS IN IPE: NEW OIL AND AFRICAN RESOURCE

MOBILIZATION

3/9


Neil Ford, ‘Oil Puts Africa on the Map’in New African, 2003

Richard Knight ‘Expanding Petroleum Production in Africa’ in Review of African

Political Economy, 2003

Catholic Relief Services Report, ‘Oil Boom: Peril or Opportunity: Africa?’

www.catholicreliefservices. Org

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS

3/11

Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources Stephen Morrison, ‘The African Pandemic Hits Washington’ in The Washington

Quarterly. 2000

Marcella David,‘Rubber Helmets: The Certain Pitfalls of Marshalling Security Council

Resources to Combat AIDS in Africa’ in Human Rights Quarterly 23.3 (2001)

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David Barnard ‘In the High Court of South Africa, Case No 4138/98: the global politics of

access to low-cost AIDS drugs in poor countries’ in Kennedy Institute of Ethic Journal.

2002

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

US FOREIGN POLICY, THE BUSH DOCTRINE AND ISLAMIZATION IN

AFRICA

3/16


Donald Rothchild, ‘The U.S Foreign Policy Trajectory on Africa’ SAIS Review

21.1(2001) Project Muse Journal of Democracy Article

Gilbert Khadiagala, ‘The United States and Africa: Beyond the Clinton Administration’

SAIS Review 21.1 2001 Project Muse Journal of Democracy Article

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

3/18

Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System, ‘The Triumph of

Realism: Africa and the Middle East’ by Olusola Ojo


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Jean de la Gueriviere and Aacene Belmessous ‘The Different Faces of Black Islam’ and

‘The Progress of Islam in Africa’ African Geopolitics. Winter 2001/2002

Rene Lemarchand, ‘Beyond the Mad Dog Syndrome’ in The Green and the

Black:Qadhafi’s Polices in Africa. 1988

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

Midterm Due

SPRING RECESS

3/19-3/29

PART TWO:

PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COUNTRY CASE INTERNATIONAL

PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES

FRANCOPHONE AFRICA AND COTE’ D’IVOIRE

3/30

Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process, ‘New Directions in

Francophone West African Foreign Policies’ by Peter J. Schraeder


Guy Martin, ‘France’s African Policy in Transition: Disengagement and Redeployment’

in Africa in World Politics, 2002

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Cyril Daddieh, ‘Elections and Ethnic Violence in Cote D’Ivoire: the Unfinished Business

of Succession and Democratic Transition’

CONFLICT AND REGIONAL WEST AFRICA

4/1

Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process, ‘Foreign Policy

Decision-making in Anglophone West Africa’


Yekutiel Gershoni ‘War Without End and An End to A War: the prolonged wars in Liberia

and Sierra Leone’ in African Studies Review, 1997

Quentin Outram, ‘It’s Terminal Either Way: an analysis of armed conflict in Liberia,

1989-1996’Review of African Political Economy. 1997

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

NIGERIA: Wither Giant of Africa

4/6


Ukoha Ukiwo ‘Politics, Ethno-Religious conflicts and Democratic Consolidation in

Nigeria’ in Journal of Modern African Studies. 2003

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John Ejobowah, ‘Who Owns the Oil? The Politics of Ethnicity in the Niger Delta of

Nigeria’ Africa Today 47 (2000)

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

SOUTH AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE

4/8 Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process ‘Foreign Policy

Decision-making in Southern Africa’s Fading Frontline’ by Gilbert Khadaiagala

Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System, ‘Southern Africa

and the End of Apartheid: opportunities and challenges’by Abiodun Alao

Edozie, R. Kiki ‘Promoting African Owned and Operated Development: the New African

Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) unpublished conference paper. 2003

THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA

4/13


Michael Neocosmos, ‘Democracy, Rights Discourse, National Healing and State Formation:

Theoretical Reflections on the Liberation Transition in Southern Africa’ Ashgate Policy

Paper Series. 2000

Krista Johnson, ‘Liberal or Liberation Framework? The Contradictions of ANC rule in

South Africa’ Journal of Contemporary African Studies. May 2003

Sign-up Volunteers:

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1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

ZIMBABWE IN CRISIS

4/15


Suzanne Danserau ‘Liberation and Opposition in Zimbabwe’ in Journal of Contemporary

African Studies. May 2003

Sam Moyo, ‘The Political-Eocnomy of Land Acquisition and Redistribution in Zimbabwe.

1990-1999’ in Journal of Southern African Studies. March 2000

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

RETREATING COLD WARS: RECONSTRUCTION IN ANGOLA AND

MOZAMBIQUE

4/20


Patrick Chabal, ‘Angola and Mozambique: the weight of history’ 1998 Working Papers On

Line <www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/humanities/probrst/pcpapers.htm>

Thomas Turner, ‘Angola’ in Foreign Policy in Focus

Sign-up Volunteers:

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1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

CONFLICT AND RECONSTRUCTION IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION

4/22

Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process ‘Foreign Policy Making

in the Great Lakes Region’ by Rene Lemarchand


Paul Orogun. ‘Government, Ethnic Schisms, Civil War and Regional Destabilization of the

DRC’ in World Affairs 2002

Ngolet, Francois ‘African and American Connivance in Congo-Zaire’ Africa Today. 2000

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

10 YEARS REMEMBERING GENOCIDE: RWANDA

4/27


Joel Settenheim, ‘The Arusha Accords and the Failure of International Intervention in

Rwanda’

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Stef Vandeginste, ‘Justice, Reconciliation and Reparation After Genocide and Crimes

Against Humanity: the proposed establishment of popular ‘gacaca’ tribunals in Rwanda’

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

THE HORN OF AFRICA and the Sudan Peace Process

4/29

Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process, ‘The Foreign Policies

of the Horn: The Clash Between Old and New’


Eric Greaves, ‘Peace or War? The Moment of Truth for Sudan’

Africans, Arabs, and Islamists: From the Conference Tables to the Battlefields in the Sudan’

in African Studies Review. 1999

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

Ethiopia and Eritrea 5/4


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Kidane Mengisteab ‘Ethiopia’s Ethnic-Based Federalism: 10 Years After’ in African

Issues 2001

Leenco Lata, ‘The Ethiopia-Eritrea War’ in Review of African Political Economy 2003

Sign-up Volunteers:

1)_________________________________2)________________________________

3)_________________________________4)________________________________

PART THREE:

AFRICAN PUBLIC AFFAIRS MAGAZINE ROUNDTABLE

Suggested Online Resources

http://allAfrica.com

http://AfricaNews.com

http://PambazukaNews.com

One page typed response required from every student

5/6

Charles Taylor and the UN War Tribunal: Should Charles Taylor be repatriated from his exile

in Nigeria to face the UN ICT for alleged crimes in Sierra Leone?

5/11

Was Zimbabwe treated unfairly by the Commonwealth? Does Robert Mugabe deserve to

suffer the fate of Saddam Hussein?

5/13

Does Africa deserve a permanent seat on the UN Security Council? Which African country is

best suited to attain such a role? Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania or Botswana?

5/18

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the world’s most lucrative mineral

resources. Will a post conflict, independent DRC share its resource and land abundance with

neighboring Rwanda, Uganda?

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5/25

FINAL DUE

ENDNOTES 1 International Policy Issues

1. Global Apartheid and the contemporary African political economy

2. Political Marginalization and Africa in the Post Cold War Global Arena

3. The African Crisis in the Context of African Development

4. New International Regimes and Reconstruction: Pan-Africanism, the African Union and Nepad

5. Economic and Political Reform: The Age of Sustainable Development in Africa

6. Post-9/11 Security, Political Islam and the Bush Doctrine in Africa 2 Public and Political Affairs: Case Studies

1. Cote D’Ivoire and Conflict

2. The Sudan and Peace

3. The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Peace

4. Crisis in Zimbabwe

5. Liberia, Conflict and International Intervention

6. Transitioning in Sierra Leone

7. Transitioning in Rwanda

8. Nigeria: wither African Giant?

9. South Africa: new African Hegemon?

10. Libya and Africa 3 Suggested Essay Format:

Select and Research Topic (use course sources)

Theorize about Topic and Attempt a Thesis Statement or Theme

Using external resources (at least one or two books) to Support your Thesis analytically and

critically

State Thesis upfront in an intro paragraph page, divide essay into at least three subsections,

include a conclusion

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