#  AFRAMER 209A: Africa Rising? New African Economies/Cultures and Their Global Implications Jump to Today 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2017 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/12916) 

 

 

 

Sort**Course Description:** In a story titled Africa Rising (2011), The Economist argued that the continent epitomizes both the "transformative promise of [capitalist ] growth and its bleakest dimensions." This workshop will explore Africa's changing place in the world - and the new economies, legalities, socialities, and cultural forms that have arisen there. It will also interrogate the claim that the African present is a foreshadowing of processes beginning to occur elsewhere; that, therefore, it is a productive source of theory about current conditions world-wide. The workshop, open to faculty and students, will meet Mondays from 6:00-7:30. 15 students will be permitted to take it as a course; they will also meet on Mondays, 12:00-1:30. Grades will be based on participation and a term essay.









 

 

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