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Dr. E. Gyimah-Boadi of the Center for Democracy and Development, Stephen Orvis of Hamilton College and Arlindo Chilundo of Colgate University will participate in a panel discussion titled "Corruption in Africa: Criminality or Survival Strategy" at Colgate University on Monday, April 2 at 4:00 p.m. Anne Pitcher, associate professor of political science at Colgate, will serve as chair for the discussion. The event is sponsored by Colgate's Center for Ethics and World Societies, is free and open to the public and will take place in Room 217 of Lathrop Hall.
Gyimah-Boadi is the founder and executive director of the Center for Democracy and Development, a research think tank for democratic development in Ghana and the West Africa sub-region. He led the team of consultants that conducted an event for the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition and the World Bank in 2000. He has consulted on the politics of economic reform, good governance , corruption, and democratic development in Africa for many international organizations, including the World Bank, USAID, Institute of Economic Affairs (Ghana), the African Development Bank, and Global Coalition for Africa. A political science professor at the University of Ghana, his publications on African/Ghanaian economic and political development have appeared in the Journal of Democracy and in the books State, Conflict and Democracy in Africa (Richard Joseph ed., 1999) and The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies, (Andreas Schedler, Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner eds., 1999).
Orvis specializes in politics and development in Africa, particularly East Africa. His current research focuses on the development of civil society and civic education in rural Kenya, based on field research in Kenya in 1999 and 2000. Orvis is author of The Agrarian Crisis in Kenya (University Press of Florida, 1997) and the forthcoming article, "Moral Ethnicity and Civil Society in Africa," in the Journal of Asian and African Studies. Former editor of Issue: A Journal of Opinion, Orvis served as international election observer in Kenya in the 1992 and 1993 "transitional" elections.
Chilundo, who is currently a visiting professor at Colgate, is director of planning, coordinator of the nucleus of land studies, and an assistant professor of history at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique. From 1999 to 2000 he coordinated a nationwide higher education strategic plan committee appointed by the government of Mozambique. Chilundo has written about developmental, economic, political and environmental reforms in Mozambique and Angola. He is the recipient of grants from organizations such as the Ford Foundation, Kellog Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation.
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