1. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Politics
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30 million sq km
A Survey of
Sub-Saharan Africa’s Politics
Middlebury College
Spring 2016

7. Stop & Think: So What?
Diversity of resources + diversity of people + hard to project power + hard to distribute resources/goods/services, etc.

8. “The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader does not care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular”

11. How did Africa Get There?

18. AFROCRACY?

27. More Aid
No (More) Aid
Better Aid

29. A Facelift for Africa?

30. http://www. harpercollege. edu/mhealy/g101ilec/ssa/afc/afdiv/afdivmp

31. Forms, Motivations, Pace, etc.
Change Engagement:
Forms, Motivations, Pace, etc.
“Africa is to be pitied, worshipped and dominated” (How to…)
“The Modern African is a fat man who steals and works in the visa office, refusing to give work permits to qualified Westerners who really care about Africa. He is an enemy of development, always using his government job to make it difficult for pragmatic and good-hearted expats to set up NGOs or Legal Conservation Areas” (How to…)