Bucknell Dance Company Fall 2001 Performance

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Bucknell Dance Studio Fall 2005

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Bucknell Dance Company Fall 1987

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Bucknell Dance Company Fall 2003 Performance

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Bucknell Dance Studio Fall Concert 2007

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Things Fall Apart: Dictatorships, Development, and Democracy in Africa

Recent events in Africa provide evidence of the failure of dictatorships to meet the needs of citizens and serve to debunk a number of development theory assumptions: that democratization is culturally determined, that democratization will follow economic development, and that dictatorships tend to produce durable, stable development. Therefore, the attempt to achieve development without democratization is risky and potentially very costly. We argue that dictatorship in Africa serves a function akin to Myrdal's backwash effects, thwarting economic progress in a cumulative and circular way, and that democratization must become a necessary criterion of engagement with African countries.