Reading homework help
This assignment has two components: a summary component and an analysis component.
Each component should at minimum be 2 pages long. So the total assignment should be between 4 and 7 pages long depending on how in-depth you go into each section.
You may write the assignment as a Memo to someone who is in charge of an organization concerned with Africa or aid (such as USAID or WorldVision), but you don’t have to do this.
Part 1 of the assignment is to summarize two chapters from The Bright Continent (this section will be worth half of your assignment grade):
You must choose chapter 4 on aid and watch the related video on the trouble with aid linked here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYTZTBLfNTQ
You may choose any other chapter between chapters 5 and 10 as your second chapter. So, for instance, you could summarize 4 and 5, 4 and 9, 4 and 10, etc. You can review the questions below to get a sense of what each chapter includes to help make your choice.
You can bullet-point your summaries, but please make sure to separate the chapters.
You must use some quotes and some paraphrases in your summaries.
Please cite the text appropriately in your summaries.
Part 2 of the assignment is to analyze the summaries that you included. Analysis involves breaking down an issue in order to evaluate it with the goal of discovering new connections. Analysis can involve comparison, evaluation and linking an issue to a broader context or significance. In this section, you could also include your opinion since critical thinking involves analysis. You may add information from the rest of the book in this section (meaning the parts of the book you didn’t summarize), but please make sure to focus on what you summarized.
The following questions should help guide your analysis; obviously, not all questions will apply to each of you as you will be working mainly from two chapters. Please note the following in your analysis section (which will be worth the other half of your grade). This section should be written in paragraph/essay form not as a series of short-answer responses:
How does aid harm Africa? What’s wrong with aid? How can aid be improved? (chapter 4)
How does the Family Map (family and religion) help and harm Africans? (chapter 5)
What is the role of technology in Africa? (chapter 6)
Kanju is African creativity or improvisation. Provide some examples of kanju from the chapters you selected or the book as a whole. How do Africans actually get along and get through life given the state of their countries/governments? (chapters 4, 5 and 6)
What are the positives and negatives of commerce in Africa? What are the roles of microfinance, school fees and health insurance? (chapter 7)
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Africa’s natural landscape? What is Africa’s power problem and how could Africans solve it? What are Africa’s issues woth desertification and deought and how might these be alleviated? (chapter 8)
Tell me the good and bad of having a young continent? How do the education, government and formal economic systems fail to serve the youth? (chapter 9)
What are Hirschman’s three responses for systems in turmoil and how Africans have responded to turmoil? What has Rwanda done to better its image and to make life better for its citizens?How do the Two Publics work in the two legal systems of Liberia? (chapter 10)
For all analyses you should include: How has the book changed your view of Africa? What do Africans really need?
THIS IS THE LINK FOR THE BOOK
https://books.google.com/books?id=RfhJAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=fa
Each component should at minimum be 2 pages long. So the total assignment should be between 4 and 7 pages long depending on how in-depth you go into each section.
You may write the assignment as a Memo to someone who is in charge of an organization concerned with Africa or aid (such as USAID or WorldVision), but you don’t have to do this.
Part 1 of the assignment is to summarize two chapters from The Bright Continent (this section will be worth half of your assignment grade):
You must choose chapter 4 on aid and watch the related video on the trouble with aid linked here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYTZTBLfNTQ
You may choose any other chapter between chapters 5 and 10 as your second chapter. So, for instance, you could summarize 4 and 5, 4 and 9, 4 and 10, etc. You can review the questions below to get a sense of what each chapter includes to help make your choice.
You can bullet-point your summaries, but please make sure to separate the chapters.
You must use some quotes and some paraphrases in your summaries.
Please cite the text appropriately in your summaries.
Part 2 of the assignment is to analyze the summaries that you included. Analysis involves breaking down an issue in order to evaluate it with the goal of discovering new connections. Analysis can involve comparison, evaluation and linking an issue to a broader context or significance. In this section, you could also include your opinion since critical thinking involves analysis. You may add information from the rest of the book in this section (meaning the parts of the book you didn’t summarize), but please make sure to focus on what you summarized.
The following questions should help guide your analysis; obviously, not all questions will apply to each of you as you will be working mainly from two chapters. Please note the following in your analysis section (which will be worth the other half of your grade). This section should be written in paragraph/essay form not as a series of short-answer responses:
How does aid harm Africa? What’s wrong with aid? How can aid be improved? (chapter 4)
How does the Family Map (family and religion) help and harm Africans? (chapter 5)
What is the role of technology in Africa? (chapter 6)
Kanju is African creativity or improvisation. Provide some examples of kanju from the chapters you selected or the book as a whole. How do Africans actually get along and get through life given the state of their countries/governments? (chapters 4, 5 and 6)
What are the positives and negatives of commerce in Africa? What are the roles of microfinance, school fees and health insurance? (chapter 7)
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Africa’s natural landscape? What is Africa’s power problem and how could Africans solve it? What are Africa’s issues woth desertification and deought and how might these be alleviated? (chapter 8)
Tell me the good and bad of having a young continent? How do the education, government and formal economic systems fail to serve the youth? (chapter 9)
What are Hirschman’s three responses for systems in turmoil and how Africans have responded to turmoil? What has Rwanda done to better its image and to make life better for its citizens?How do the Two Publics work in the two legal systems of Liberia? (chapter 10)
For all analyses you should include: How has the book changed your view of Africa? What do Africans really need?
THIS IS THE LINK FOR THE BOOK
https://books.google.com/books?id=RfhJAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=fa