Take a tour of some of the world’s hottest issues! For more than a decade, Truman State University’s Global Issues Colloquium has been helping the Truman community understand many of the most challenging questions, conflicted responses and hopeful developments facing various governments and societies.
Please join us for the next Global Issues Colloquium talk, 7 p.m. Thursday April 10, Violette Hall 1010.
Emmanuel Nnadozie, Building Capacity for Africa’s Development.
My talk will focus mainly on ACBF’s model and holistic approach to capacity development for Africa, which uses both direct and indirect interventions at the human, institutional and organizational levels. The model is based on demand-driven approach that is systematic, sequenced and coordinated and African leadership and ownership of the process.
Professor Emmanuel Nnadozie is an educator, economist, author, development expert and entrepreneur. His work spans over 30 years in the development arena and public and private sectors. He is currently President of CAP&TECH LLC, a private company that provides technology solutions and IT services to small and medium-sized businesses. He was the Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) from 2013 to 2022, where he managed complex donor relationships and over $100 million investments in capacity development across Africa. He was Chief Economist and Director of the Macroeconomic Policy Division and before then the Director of the Economic Development and NEPAD Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) which he joined in 2004. At the UNECA, Prof. Nnadozie led the production of the well acclaimed annual Economic Report on Africa from 2010 to 2013; the Least developed Countries Monitor and the annual Africa MDGs Report for 4 years. He also served as a UN representative at various intergovernmental and continental forums and as coordinator for the UN system-wide support to Africa’s development as well as the focal point for UN’s relations with the African Union Commission, NEPAD Secretariat and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Before joining the UNECA, Prof. Nnadozie taught economics from 1989 to 2004 at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. While at Truman, he was also a fellow at University of Oxford and a visiting professorship at University of North Carolina. In 1992 he obtained a federal grant to establish the university’s McNair Scholars Program—a doctoral preparatory program for underrepresented students. He served as the director of the program until he left the university in 2004. Emmanuel Nnadozie has written or edited several journal articles, books and book chapters, which include among others, African Economic Development. Recognized as an educator, Emmanuel Nnadozie is member of many Honor societies and organizations. He received higher degrees at the University of Nigeria Nsukka and the Université de Paris 1 Sorbonne. An award-winning educator, Professor Nnadozie was recognized as a Most Outstanding Black Missourian of the Year in 2003. He served as President of the African Finance and Economics Association of North America (1999-2001), and Editor, Journal of African Finance and Economic Development [currently Journal of African Development] (1998-2002).
7 p.m. Thursday April 24, Violette Hall 1010.
Dr. John J. Quinn, Professor of Political Science and International Relations.
Why the U.S. Started to Give Foreign Aid, The Nature of it, and Why it Should Continue.
This talk outlines the beginning of American Official Development Assistance, the amount, the forms it takes, and what role it can play in foreign policy.
John James Quinn (UCLA, PhD) is Professor of Political Science and International Relations and writes on issues of African development and democratization using international relations, comparative politics, and international political economy perspectives. He was a Peace Corp Volunteer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and a visiting professor at the University of Ghana-Legon. He wrote three book on African political economy and development as well as articles and book chapters on issues ranging form the Rwandan genocide and Mobutu’s overthrown, the determinates of French ODA to Africa, the links between democracy and development in Africa, causes of corruption cross nationally, African foreign policies, and the types of political parties in Africa following recent African liberalization.
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