New Unit: Foreign Aid Today & "The Single Story"
Agenda
1. Review this week's calendar + go over reading reqs for Dead Aid and hand out copies of the text.
2. Mid-term cancelled + Ashley's rationale for this executive decision because I know you are all upset.
Required Selections from Dead Aid
3. Watch a satire of mainstream African charity campaigns
4. Listen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Ted Talk "The Danger of a Single Story" (Adhichie is the author of the short story you are reading for next Monday)
Agenda
1. Review this week's calendar + go over reading reqs for Dead Aid and hand out copies of the text.
- Sally and Robin: Change to seminar date- moved to next Thursday due to Assembly on Friday
- Mandy and Taylor: Seminar date
2. Mid-term cancelled + Ashley's rationale for this executive decision because I know you are all upset.
Required Selections from Dead Aid
- By Monday, 3/3: Introduction + pages 3-56
- By Thursday, 3/6: Pages 71-101
- By Monday, 3/10: Pages 98-101, 111-113, all of ch. 8 and all of ch. 10 (total of 28 pages)
3. Watch a satire of mainstream African charity campaigns
4. Listen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Ted Talk "The Danger of a Single Story" (Adhichie is the author of the short story you are reading for next Monday)
- What experiences have shaped Adichie's perspective?
- Have you been guilty of telling or believing in a "single story" of Africa? Of other countries/cultures?
- Have other people ever held a "single story" of you?
- What is the relationship between power and the "single story"? Do you agree with her claim on this point?
- What is the problem with "the single story"? What if that story helps authors sell books or African charities get more money?
- What can we do to challenge the single story, according to Adichie?