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, https://zoom.us/my/global.issues
Emmanuel Nnadozie, Building Capacity for Africa’s Development.
This talk examines holistic approaches to development in Africa. Dr. Nnadozie will focus on the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACDF) model that aims to build sustainable growth and poverty reduction by emphasizing 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. Prof. Nnadozie taught economics from 1989 to 2004 at Truman State University. While at Truman, he was also a fellow at University of Oxford and a visiting professorship at University of North Carolina.
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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