Length: 6 pages. or approximately 1200-1500 words
Final Essay: Write an essay on post-colonial Africa. You can explore themes such as: neo-colonialism, neo-patrimonialism, gender, the burden of history. (Guide: Use materials from Week 8, 9, 10. You can include evidence from previous weeks to advance your arguments/ claims.)
Question: Why and how did Africans in the colonies organise to overthrow European colonialism and imperialism?
Week 8 ( SEE ATTACHMENT BELOW )
Resistance, and Independence
David Anderson. Histories of the Hanged. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2005, 9-53.
Film: Ousmane Sembene. Camp Thiaroye. Enaproc et. al. 1988. 157 mins.
Guide: Length 6 pages/ 12-1500 words, double spaced, in typeface. Late penalties will apply! Citation style: Chicago footnotes.
Week 9 ( TRY FINDING ONLINE )
Nationalist Hopes and Tropes
Basil Davidson, “The Rise of Nationalism” (E7 of Africa – Story of a Continent). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF-VLTPBSe0
BBC The Story of Africa E21: “Challenges to Colonialism” (podcast).
BBC The Story of Africa E22: “Independence” (podcast).
Guidance: How are the readings for Week 8 connected to the events recounted here?
Week 10 ( SEE MOVIE TRANSCRIPT IN ATTACHMENT BELOW )
Watch: “Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask” (dir: Isaac Julien, 1995), 50 mins.
CITATIONS : Julien, I. (Director). (1995). Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask [Video file]. Film Movement. Retrieved March 18, 2024, from Kanopy.
Guidance: How does Fanon understand colonialism? To whose concerns does he speak? What inspires his programme for liberation? What explains his continuing appeal?
