Urban Africa/Popular Culture

Catalog description

Bowles and Wiemers Though ethnographic texts, this course explores the intersections of gender, ethnicity and class in African societies in the 20th and 21st centuries. This course also examines representations of Africa within the nation-state and transnationally. Topics of discussion include tourism, national identity and ethnicity, popular culture, the dichotomies of urban and rural Africa and the cultural politics of development and the state. Satisfies Anthropology major and minor requirement. Satisfies History major and minor requirement. Satifies a cultural production and expressions requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa). Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement.