Pan-Africanism & Postcolonialism

This course will read some major texts of Pan-Africanism and Postcolonialism; and examine their intersectionality. CPLS students will be expected to read the texts in the original language where possible. In conversation with the Postcolonialism section, the Pan-Africanism section will consider the shifting debates in various geographical (Harlem, Paris, London and the African Atlantic enclaves (Cape Coast, Accra, Lagos, Saint Louis, Dakar), historical (from ide of African Renaissance in the late 18th century, the Haitian Revolution to the early 20th century, War World 1, the interwar period, the invasion of Ethiopia and World War 2, the Civil rights (The Americas)  and nationalist (Africa) movements…), intellectual (the debates and controversies around African cultures, modernit(ies) and universalisms) and artistic (modernism and African aesthetic languages) situations.