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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/history/events/why-africa-not-rising-history-reproducing">Why Africa is not rising: History reproducing?</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Professor Ian Taylor, University of St Andrews<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Africa is said to be rising, with current high growth rates being pointed to as indicators that the continent has turned a corner; that it is in fact, “the next Asia”. Such commentaries, however
popular they may be, neglect the deep historical roots of the continent’s underdevelopment and overlook the structural challenges to any notional Africa rising narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">This lecture will argue that was has happened over the last 20 years or so (the period upon which the “Africa rising” discourse has been based) has actually witnessed the reproduction and reification
of historical tendencies that formerly were held to be indicators of Africa’s maldevelopment. Ahistorical accounts that sweep away the past record of Africa and the transnational linkages that help maintain the continent’s position in the global economy need
serious interrogation. Otherwise, history will simply repeat itself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Tuesday 31 March 2015
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">10:00 am to 11:30 am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">EV3 3412<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Refreshments provided<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><img border="0" width="500" height="178" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D0654E.3193AB00" alt="Billboard with slogan 'Arise!', Ethiopia"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Photo courtesy of Ian Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Anne Leask<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Undergraduate Program Co-ordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/history/current-undergraduates"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Department of History</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">HH 115 | 519.888.4567 x 35828<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://uwaterloo.ca/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="52" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image004.png@01D0654F.614A37A0" alt="university-of-waterloo-logo-esig"></span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/waterloohistory"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="44" height="42" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D0654C.84359B90" alt="Twitter Email Logo"></span></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/WaterlooHistory"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="44" height="42" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D0654C.84359B90" alt="YouTube Email Logo"></span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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