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Home > Degree Programs > Teaching & Courses > 2008-2009 Course Listing > Leadership and Governance: The Politics of Contemporary Africa
IGA-318: Leadership and Governance: The Politics of Contemporary Africa
Semester: Spring
Credit: 1.0
Faculty: Robert Rotberg
Schedule
| Day | Time | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Day | 1/28 | ||
| Meet Day | M/W | 4:10 PM - 6:00 PM | 124MA/160 |
| Review |
Description
Closely examines the positive and negative leadership contributions, styles, accomplishments, and governance and economic growth legacies for their respective countries of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, Sir Seretse Khama, Olusegun Obasanjo, Yoweri Museveni, Joaquim Chissano, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Joseph Kabila, Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Mugabe, and other contemporary and near-contemporary political exemplars. Explores the impact of leadership on good governance and on political culture and institutions. Students will become familiar with different African political trajectories; participants in the seminar will develop and present specific “cases” within the overall framework. Learning will be very hands-on and interactive. One or two leaders, or their proxies, may take part directly. Through the lenses of leadership and governance, seminar participants will appreciate the complex nature of politics in sub-Saharan Africa and come to understand how vexing problems of contemporary Africa have been addressed, successfully or not, by a number of Africa’s key figures.