Africa's Development - Challenges and Strategies - Einzelansicht

The seminar provides an analysis of developmental controversies and challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa, and of selected national and international strategies to tackle such challenges. The seminar will not present an overview of extant theoretical approaches for explaining ‘African’ developmental trends, but rather consist in discussing selected and quite specific developmental aspects such as land rights, industrialization, taxation or social protection. By combining relevant theoretical approaches with the study of empirical cases we aim to get a better idea of how a combination of international, national and local factors facilitate and block development, and how this might vary across Africa. Each session will include a reflection about strategic consequences.

Depending on composition of the group, the seminar will be held in German or English language. Prüfungsleistungen für IBEP-Studierende können in jedem Fall in deutscher Sprache erbracht werden.

The seminar will be held on campus, and we will start with our first session on 7 April 2022.

MA IBEP students write a seminar paper that counts as module exam for both this seminar and the lecture on African politics. The topic and RQ of the seminar paper must refer to the themes discussed in class (seminar or lecture). Within the seminar paper you will be asked to include one section which discusses policy transfer or strategic consequences.