The following titles are available for purchase at the College Bookstore. They have also been placed On Reserve and the Davis Library (the library has them online, too).

1. Moyo, Dambisa. 2009. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (paper). Note: See Week 7 choice.
2. Wrong, Michela. 2009.It’s Our Turn to Eat. Harper (paper).
3. Olopade, Dayo. 2015. The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (paper).

The following is a reference intended to give you some background on the continent’s political history. It is available at the Davis Family Library:

1. Nugent, Paul. 2004. Africa sinceIndependence. Palgrave Mac Millan.