African Development Seminar- PIA 2574

Europe and Africa: The Emotional Issue?

Group Discussions

Europe in Africa: nature of the relationship (Images)

Discussion

1.The impact of Settlers (Both European, Middle Eastern and Asian) on “your" part of Africa.

2.Francophone Issue: the impact of France on

the region as a part of a European image and the extent to which the French in West Africa are "settlers.“

3.The New Settlers? Foreign Aid Workers and Missionaries

One View

Zimbabwe- “White Africans?”

Carrie Gruenloh, MPIA Univ. of Pittsburgh, Democracy Specialist (Southern Sudan) USAID

Settlers: The Issue and the Problem

Francophone Africa:

North Africa, Algeria and permanent association

The Importance of “Francophonie” on Culture and Values

“Sarkozy admits France made mistakes over Tunisia” Nicholas Sarkozy and Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali

West Africa

Role of the "Syrians" and "Lebanese“

Arabs as "settlers?“

People of mixed race?

Mixed Race Political Leaders- Jerry Rawlings, Ghana and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia

Mixed Race

Eastern and Central Africa

80,000 people

Issue- Loyalty to the State and conflict with Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous People- Wa Arusha Masai

Zimbabwe

Military demobilization and Rhodesia

"Home Rule"- UDI

Zimbabwe and Non-racialism

Indigenous Peoples and Land

Rhodesian Army, c. 1975

Eastern and Southern Africa

Indians in Eastern and Southern Africa

Asians- The forgotten settlers

Amin, Mugabe and the indigenous people argument

The Uganda Asians

Land Economics In Zimbabwe

Missionaries, Traders and Settlers: How to Assess

British Settlers

Missionaries and Settlers

East Africa, the Federation

Southern Africa

The special issue of Namibia

 Still From The Film 'White Mischief'

Popularizers: Ernest and Mary Hemmingway and Madonna (Stereotyped Images)

South Africa Profile, 1985: Is South Africa Different?

Indians 900,000 (2.7%)

Africans: 24,000,000 (72%)

Indigenous: San-Khoisian: 31,000 (less than .5%)

Others: Chinese, Japanese, Arabic (30,000- less than .5%)

South Africa

Dutch- settlement and movement

“So Called Coloureds” [ and Indians]

1815: End of Napoleonic War

1820s settlers: British

British vs. Dutch-

“S0-Called Coloured” South Africans

South Africa: Reminder

Trusteeship vs. Assimilation

Segregation vs. Apartheid- "Homelands" as nations

Afrikaans vs. African Nationalism

Majority rule vs. minorities

South Africa: The Dependency Issues

Role of working class and poor

whites

Mining and labor reserve- "peasant based proletariat

Multi-racialism, non-racialism vs. “Africanization”

Peasantariat Families and Mining- South African Mines and European Lights

Eritrea- 1940s

Authors

What have you been reading this week?

Settlers Redux

Impact on the Whole Continent

Question: Was Europe’s Relationship with Africa Different than with the Middle East, Asia and Latin America

The New Settlers: Foreign Aid Workers, Contractors and Missionaries

Settlers:

Question: Was Europe’s Relationship with Africa Different than with the Middle East, Asia and Latin America

Cases

Nadine Gordimer (Nobel Laureate) in 1961 and with Nelson Mandela and sing the National Liberation Anthem at the Gandhi Memorial in Johannesburg, 1993.

Richard Rive: Resident of “District Six” Cape Town

Alexandra Fuller, Born 1969, Now Resident of Wilson, Wyoming

Aminatta Forna, Born 1964 of Scottish and Sierra Leone Heritage

Dave Eggers (B. 1970) and Valentino Achak Deng (Born c. 1980)

Discussion

1.The impact of Settlers (Both European, Middle Eastern and Asian) on “your" part of Africa.

2.Francophone Issue: the impact of France on the

region as a part of a European image and the extent to which the French in West Africa are "settlers.“

3.The New Settlers? Foreign Aid Workers and Missionaries