Emerging from the Shadows: 21st century African Politics

Africa provides a living laboratory in which researchers, educators and students alike are challenged to question preconceived ideas surrounding the role of the state in governing 21st century society, the extent to and direction in which glocalization of the world’s economy will influence quality of life of the earth’s population as well as how inter-state cooperation and conflict continue to be conducted on the world stage.

This class uses states, cultures and identities which populate Sub-Sahara Africa to illustrate just how fluid structural conditions which define our understanding of our world have become.