Assignment:
This 40-minute or so piece can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRIdMpCXCEw
1. When you watch this clip, what themes from the course do you notice?
2. The producer and academic, Robert Beckford, asks the question, ...if the people are so hardworking yet underproducing, what's preventing their success? What is his answer?
3. How would externalist and internalist approaches explain the Great African Scandal and the situation described in Gemhana's article about the porters in Ghana?
Readings:
Urban Poverty, Livelihood, and Gender: Perceptions and Experiences of Porters in Accra, Ghana
By Muriel Adjubi Yeboah