Courses

The course focuses on the Structure and effects of conflicts; refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and other vulnerable groups –women, children, the disabled, the aged, etc.

The focus of the course will be the structure and functioning of organizations and the behaviour of groups and individuals within them. Theories of organisation, e.g. structural, group/behavioural, individual, decision making and policy analysis as well as...

The course will involve discussion of main approaches to development including the neo-liberal, import substitution industrialization, export-led industrialization, state-led industrialization, basic needs approach, ERP/SAPs, HIPC, African-based strategies...

This course will explore theories of identity, identity crisis and governance and their impact on the state, constitutions, development – civil wars, ethnic and religious strives, minority conflicts – with case studies.

The changing relations between the state and society; the underlying factors (including civil society, military coups); implications for democracy and human security will be explored.

The course will provide a review of some of the main works on the theories of development and underdevelopment –classical, liberal and Marxist theories; Rostow, Frank, Amin, Wallerstein.

Current and pertinent issues in the study of comparative politics will be considered.

The course will be on the forces that shaped the colonization of Africa; colonialism and its social, economic and political impact on Africa; liberation movements, struggles for independence.
 

The course will focus on analyses of colonial policies and their impact – social, economic and political; the anti-colonial struggle.

This will be an explanation of Changing patterns and structure of integration globally; analyses and assessment of the African experience