Week Ten

Week 10: Foreign Aid & (Non-)Development

PSCI0202-S19-Week 10 Days 1&2

  • Watch and Learn: “Change Your Channel,” Mallence Bart Williams (17′ mn.):

  1. How does Mallence Bart Williams measure Sierra Leone’s (and, by extension, Sub-Saharan Africa’s) wealth? [measures of wealth]
  2. How is SSA valuable to the rest of the world?
  3. What intrigues the speaker when it comes to Africa’s world status?
  4. What argument linking politics to SSA’s poverty does MBW make?
  5. What novel ways of thinking does the speaker introduce to us, and for what purpose?
  6. What surprises you most in what you have just heard?
  7. Do you find this speaker inspiring? Why/not?