POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Modernization Theory, Dependency Theory, Walter Rodney
1 Dec 2013
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Pols 3000: politics of africa september 19 2013. ***know authors names (for essays, exams, tests etc. ) There are three broad themes, which are important in the critical traditions: first: the critical tradition tended to locate sources of africa"s challenges outside africa"s borders. That is, this perspective concerns itself with questions of why some groups, classes, states, are wealthier than others: in a same world, commerce yields to justice - caplan page 8. Any state should be democratic, everything else is just nutty = western arrogance. Liberals aren"t always concerned with democracy but are definitely not in the critical approach. Modernization theory (the idea that states develop based on this line [below]) Thus africa"s lack of development: did not result from inability but instead africa was doing just fine before imperialists/ colonialists screwed it up . Africa"s inability to develop was a result of the fact that colonialism essentially precluded africa from developing along the lines of western.
