Course Description This course surveys the history of sub-Saharan Africa from the 1940s through the present day. Students will examine how various African communities have defined well-being, pursued prosperity, and imagined collective futures in the …
Course Spotlights
Course Spotlight: Introduction to African Cultural Expression
Course Description Wakanda forever! Do you have the critical tools to engage with all the forms of cultural expression, related to Africa and the African diaspora, that form the backcloth of so much contemporary cultural …
Course Spotlight: Introduction to African Art & Architecture
Course Description This course examines the rich heritage of African arts and architecture as they shape and have been shaped by the histories and cultural values (social, political, religious, philosophical, and aesthetic) of African peoples, …
Course Spotlight: Migration in Francophone Literary and Cinematic Narratives
Course Description While Migration has always been a human predicament from Antiquity to the present days, it has intersected more than often with slavery, colonialization, imperialism, capitalism, and globalization. More broadly, migration has intensified the …
Course Spotlight: Interdepartmental Seminar in African Studies
Course Description This new graduate seminar provides a setting for participants to consider Africa – as an idea, a field of study, a place in the world, a subject for teaching – from a multi-disciplinary …
Course Spotlight: African Politics
COURSE DESCRIPTION The course looks at a wide range of current political developments, situating them within an historical context, using concepts from political science, readings by African and non-African authors, and numerous assigned videos. The …
Course Spotlight: Sound & African Modernity
Course Description This course examines sound and technology as tools of cultural invention and identity in contemporary African life. How do music and its mediums construct national belonging in Africa and the diaspora? What are …
Course Spotlight: Global HipHop and Social Justice
Professor D was recently featured on a special episode of Le Journal Rappé (The Rap News) hosted by Senegalese rap stars Keyti and Xuman to discuss the escalating tension between Donald Trump and Kim Jung-un. …
Course Spotlight: Languages, Gender, and Sexuality in African Contexts
Course Description How are gender and sexuality constrained, constructed, performed, and resisted in and through language? We will address these issues through readings and discussion of theories of language and gender, queer linguistics, and feminist …
Course Spotlight: The Need to Help – A History of Humanitarianism
Course Description What motivates us to try to alleviate the suffering of people in distant parts of the world? This is one of the questions that threads through this course on the global history of …