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Success Stories

Success Stories. Discuss Articles from Yesterday >Thesis & Summary > Are there success stories in Africa? > Submit

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Success Stories

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  1. Success Stories • Discuss Articles from Yesterday >Thesis & Summary > Are there success stories in Africa? > Submit • Read each letter > Write down the “ingredients” that made each country successful > Record the “directions” for creating a successful state (that is how do the ingredients come together to create a stable state)

  2. Success Stories • Ghana, Botswana, Mozambique

  3. Ghana • Ingredients: Democratic System, Open Economy, Belief of people/government • Directions: diversified economy, use of natural resources (gold, cocoa), education widely available, resolve conflicts quickly/fairly, little corruption, attract foreign investors, avoid ethnic/resource trouble, land for farming

  4. Botswana • Ingredients: Democratic government, industrialized/diversified economy, commitment • Directions: civil freedoms, good human rights record, peaceful transitions, strong middle class, improved infrastructure, working Constitution, use of natural resources (diamond/mining)

  5. Mozambique • Ingredients: Democratic system, commitment, rebuild economy • Directions: combine modern & traditional, new Constitution, peace since 1962, clearing of land mines for farming, building homes, rebuild infrastructure, jobs

  6. First • PLEASE PICK UP A TEXTBOOK • What factors contributed to success stories in Ghana, Mozambique, Botswana?

  7. T.E.D. Talk • Title: How Africa can keep rising • Name of Speaker: former Finance Minister of Nigeria Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • Date of T.E.D. Talk & Number of Views: June 2016 | TEDSummit – 821,922 • Ethos: former Finance Minister of Nigeria, From 2011 to 2015 she was again named Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy of Nigeria. Between those terms, from 2007 to 2011, she was one of the managing director of the World Bank and a candidate to the organization’s presidency. She is now a senior advisor at financial advisory and asset management firm Lazard, and she chairs the Board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.

  8. Now: • Textbook Assignments: Read “empowering women in West Africa” (pages 528-529); answer the questions • Read “diffusion: Muslim and non-Muslim cultures” (pages 482-483); answer the questions

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