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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 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. 6 “Growth and Transformation” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 97-112 (course reader). H. Chitonge, ch. 6 “The political economy of Africa’s economic growth and development experience”, in Economic Growth and Development in Africa, Routledge (2014) pp. 180-222

Summary of: T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 2 “The Colonial Legacy” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 23-40. A. Jakes and A. Shokr, ch. 6 “Capitalism in Egypt, Not Egyptian Capitalism” in A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa, J. Beinin et al., eds. Stanford University Press (2020) pp. 123-142. Lecture notes included

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)