*Other readings to be distributed are marked with an asterisk in the course schedule.
5/20
Course Introduction: The Deeper Past and Current Events
5/21 The 19th Century: African Modernities / Economics of Colonialism
Laumann: Introduction and Chapter 1: “Economics of Colonialism”
*The Complaint of Muhammad al-Kanemi
5/22 Violence: Scramble for Africa and the First World War / Film: Zan Boko
*Curtis and Hansen, Voyages in World History, Chapter 26
*W.E.B. DBois, from The Negro (1915), pp. 232-242
5/23 Film Discussion / Season of Rains + Current Events
Ellis: Chapter 1 + current events gathering as assigned
5/27 Colonialism and its Critics
Laumann, Chapter 2: “Administration”
*Harry Thuku: Autobiography, 1970, extracted in Worger
5/28 Colonial Ideologies / Film: Days of Glory
Laumann, Chapter 3: “Violence”
5/29: World War II / Film: Camp de Thiaroye
*Waruhiu Itote: Mau Mau General, extracted in Worger
5/30 Film Discussion / Land and Freedom in Kenya
*”Jomo Kenyatta in Court” and “Mau Mau’s Daughter” (extracted in Worger)
6/3 Uhuru: Negotiations / Film: Lumumba
Laumann, Chapter 5: “Liberation”
6/4 Discussion: Lumumba / Uhuru and National Liberation
*Frantz Fanon: “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness”
*Julius Nyerere: “Writing on Ujamaa”
*Amilcal Cabral: “Is Neocolonialism Rationalized Imperialism?”
6/5 Struggles at Independence
*Achebe: A Man of the People (extracts)
*Proclamation of the Republic of Biafra
6/6 Discussion: A Grain of Wheat (papers due)
Ngugi: A Grain of Wheat
6/10 Season of Rains + Current Events / Film: Mapantsula
Ellis: Chapter 2
6/11 Film Discussion / Apartheid South Africa
6/12 Season of Rains + Current Events
Ellis: Chapter 3
6/13 Season of Rains + Current Events
Ellis: Chapter 4
6/17 Gender in Africa / Discussion: Unbowed
Maathai: Unbowed (papers due)
6/18 Season of Rains + Current Events / Film: Tsotsi
Ellis: Chapter 5
6/19 Film Discussion / Ending Apartheid
6/20 Christianity and Islam in Africa
6/21 Exam Period: Season of Rains + Current Events Discussion
Ellis: Chapter 6