I will provide the prompt here as well as the assignments and leading up readings for this 3 page paper.
Prompt:
Paper #2 prompt. Upload to the assignments link on our Canvas site, by class time Thursday March 14th. Three pages, 1.5 spacing, no quotations (i.e., use your own words), cite the various speeches/texts you use in text (Nyerere, 1963) and produce a separate page for your bibliography.
Compare and contrast the different worldviews and strategies for the post-war / post-Independence “project of development” (or the ideas to support the newly independent countries of the global South), as laid out in the Bandung conference texts, the African leaders’ speeches, and the chapter on the World Bank. Focus on the meanings and differences of ideas, terms/concepts, strategies, priorities, and plans for the ex-colonies and the imperial powers.
Assignments and readings:
Tues Feb 20 – What is Postcolonial Development: Let’s start with the post-war “Bandung way of thinking”
Assignment: Read/view the materials supplied on this page.
In the next two weeks, we will focus on three perspectives on what we call “postcolonial development” or what the “new world order” should look like after WWII and once most of colonial occupations will end. The first comes from the Asian-African Conference in 1955 from Bandung, Indonesia, where representatives from dozens of countries — though not from the U.S., Europe, or the Soviet Union — come together to talk about a global South-South future of solidarity that does not get entangled in the emergent Cold War of the U.S.-Capitalist order versus the Soviet State-Socialist order. The second perspective comes from African leaders fighting for independence from Europe and setting up a hopeful future of Pan-African Unity. The third perspective comes from the global North’s creation of three global institutions of power — the World Bank, the IMF, and the GATT/WTO. We will break into six study groups, supplied with enough materials to read/study/view, and you will discuss collectively the materials.
Today, I will give an overview of the first perspective, from Bandung, and then we break up into our groups.
One source of documents (official speeches, private notes, and news media coverage) from the Bandung Conference archives: https://www.cvce.eu/en/education/unit-content/-/unit/dd10d6bf-e14d-40b5-9ee6-37f978c87a01/c28105d8-8f82-4f57-b077-7e87dfbc7205/ResourcesLinks to an external site.
Here is the Bandung Declaration, a short declaration/communique Download a short declaration/communiqueafter the conference.
Prime Minister of India Nehru’s important speech: https://s3.amazonaws.com/saylordotorg-resources/wwwresources/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/HIST103-9.2.3.pdfLinks to an external site.
decolonization (1950s-1960s) timeline: https://www.cvce.eu/en/education/unit-content/-/unit/dd10d6bf-e14d-40b5-9ee6-37f978c87a01/ff00d996-e62a-4314-91e7-68929501fb7d#16fd0103-6844-47b7-9998-56c6e2433f6c_en&overlay
Thurs Feb 22 – The independence/anti-colonial movements — The second perspective on post-war development from African anti-colonial/pro-Independence leaders
Assignment: Read/view the materials provided on this page.
First, we will meet in our groups and continue our discussion on tone and ideas. First, read this speech by Julius Nyerere, from Tanzania: https://newafricanmagazine.com/3723/Links to an external site.
Second, read this speech by Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah https://newafricanmagazine.com/3721/
Here are a bunch of official speeches on “African Unity” at the First Organization for African Unity (OAU) Summit, 1963. Can by dry, but pick one or two to skim for basic tone and ideas: https://au.int/sites/default/files/speeches/38523-sp-oau_summit_may_1963_speeches.pdfLinks to an external site.
Pick one of these leaders and do a quick search for the historical context of the countries they represent. How do they express their main concerns of their nation’s and the continent’s future — the obstacles and potential paths?
Tues Feb 27 – The rise of a counter-force from the Global North: the Bretton Woods Institutions – the World Bank, IMF, GATT/WTO
Read: Michael Goldman, Imperial Nature Download Imperial Nature, (Yale University Press, 2005), Chapter Two, “The Rise of the Bank,” pp. 46-99
First, I will give an overview of this Bretton Woods perspective and then we will break up into our groups.
Here’s the ppt on the World Bank Download the ppt on the World Bank, fyi
Thurs Feb 29 – How do these three strands fit together to define the second half of the 20th century, and the present?
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