Africa, not as "Dark" as You Think

The aim of this summer school is to deconstruct what Georges Coutarde has called “The Africa of conventional ideas.” It hopes to overcome the distortions induced by the media, which show Africa as a passive victim of war, famine, poverty and AIDS, and to offer alternative, comprehensive and objective views on contemporary developments on the continent. The program proposes to break with clichéd notions of Africa in order to decrypt and analyze in depth the important debates, issues (political, economic, technological, religious) and contemporary challenges which Black Africa faces today.

Partners: the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI) de l’IEP Paris

Professor : Sandrine Perrot
CERI-ScPo, Paris

The three Master’s credit course (POL 6407) is being offered by the political science department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Undergraduates can register providing that they obtain a permission from their academic director.