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This course uses popular
music, dance, fiction, film, street art, bus slogans, newspapers
and other sources to document African interpretations of the
decades since "flag independence" in 1960. We will
let African musicians, writers, film-makers and artists direct
our investigation of the big questions of the class: Why is the
gap between rich and poor in African societies increasing? What
is happening to gender relations? What do African people think
of their political leaders and how do they imagine political
situations might improve? |