This Portfolio will reflect the time in my African Politics class, during the fall of 2016. Over the semester this class was not just any other class, it gave me an opportunity to engage in material, as well as service learning. Every wednesday we mentored IICONN youth from Bridgeport, Ct. IICONN youth which we mentored were refugees from Africa, which created a real life compontent to our learning. Throughout the class we were able to make connections with these children building solidarity with them, as well as the material which we read before they arrived.

Learning Objectives: 

1. When reading the materials engage directly with the reading and the impact that their theoretical arguments had on my conception of African Politics.
2. Demonstrate clear images linkages between the texts and the service learning component with the IICONN youth.
3. Strongly articulate though analysis the points of connect between in class material and service learning, through responses to objects in the learning portfolio.
4. Make it clear the way that you felt after reading all of the Materials, and then conducting service learning and how that compares.
5. Clearly, display all materials and display how throughout the semester the idea of creating solidarity with the IICONN youth was important.

 

Bibliography:

 

John W. Harbeson and Donald Rothchild. 2013. Africa in World Politics: Engaging a Changing Global Order, 5^th ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Goran Hyden. 2013. African Politics in Comparative Perspective, 2^nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Dambisa Moyo. 2009. Dead Aid: Why Aid is not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Ben Rawlence. 2016. City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp. New York: Picador.