African Encounters with Development

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Examines how projects for “development” have been conceived and carried out in colonial and post-colonial Africa, and how they have been represented and understood by African people, governments, and international actors. Explores the interaction of ideas and experience-from changing economic and political theories to the daily practices of farmers, bureaucrats, activists, and scholars. Satisfies a major or minor requirement in History. Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa). Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement. Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement