Event Title
Doing Good in Africa: Lessons from Traditional Agencies of Self-help in the Continent
Description
The constructed image of Africa as a luckless and helpless continent forever in need of foreign aid unjustly ignores the strong tradition of self-help and self-reliance that is found across African societies. Drawing from specific cases from his home community, Okemesi, in the Yorubaland of Nigeria, the speaker will describe the processes, practices, and enabling values of traditional agencies of self-help and explore how these can be adapted to foreign aid to make the effort more effective, respectful, and enduring.
About the Lecturer: Yomi Durotoye, Director of the African Studies program, Wake Forest University in North Carolina
Document Type
Event
Start Date
16-5-2012 12:00 PM
End Date
16-5-2012 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Economic assistance--Africa; Sustainable development--Africa; Africans--Societies, etc.; Self-help groups--Africa
Geographic Coverage
Oke Mesi (Nigeria)
Type
Moving image
Keywords
African societies, Self-help, Traditional agencies, Foreign aid
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Doing Good in Africa: Lessons from Traditional Agencies of Self-help in the Continent
Fairhaven College Auditorium
The constructed image of Africa as a luckless and helpless continent forever in need of foreign aid unjustly ignores the strong tradition of self-help and self-reliance that is found across African societies. Drawing from specific cases from his home community, Okemesi, in the Yorubaland of Nigeria, the speaker will describe the processes, practices, and enabling values of traditional agencies of self-help and explore how these can be adapted to foreign aid to make the effort more effective, respectful, and enduring.
About the Lecturer: Yomi Durotoye, Director of the African Studies program, Wake Forest University in North Carolina
