Where is West Africa? -- Negritude -- Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature -- Oral Literatures -- Lost and Found in Translation -- Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in ...
Definitions: 'From the rubbish-heap'. World literature and national literatures. The cultures of Africa. The literatures of Africa -- Early writers of African descent: Pre-Islamic and early Islamic ...
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism. By Adam Nossiter Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese-American ...
The Program in African Studies provides a systematic introduction to the complex historical, political and social issues of the African continent. Its major and minor are structured to give students ...