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Sep 25: Postcolonial ethnicity and syncretism. ''[http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/view/00141836/ap030079/03a00020/0?currentResult=00141836%2bap030079%2b03a00020%2b0%2c2B2A&searchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fsearch%2FBasicResults%3Fhp%3D25%26si%3D1%26gw%3Djtx%26jtxsi%3D1%26jcpsi%3D1%26artsi%3D1%26Query%3D%2522our%2B%2Btradition%2Bis%2Ba%2Bvery%2Bmodern%2522%26wc%3Don Christopher Waterman, "Our Tradition Is a Very Modern Tradition": Popular Music and the Construction of Pan-Yoruba Identity.] Ethnomusicology, Vol. 34, No. 3. (Autumn, 1990), pp. 367-379.Yoruba music; ritual in Malawi (Music, film; West Africa, East Africa).  [http://www.nigeria-arts.net Listen.]''
 
 
 
[[Image:ColonialAfrica_1914.png|250px|Map showing European claimants to the African continent in 1913.]]
 
 
 
[[Highlife & Ghanaian nationalism]]
 
 
 
[[Yoruba identity in Nigeria]]
 
 
 
[[Post-colonial Christian influence in Malawi]]
 
  
 
== Nation, religion, secularism (1-Oct) ==
 
== Nation, religion, secularism (1-Oct) ==

Revision as of 06:41, 26 September 2007

Class Schedule

Class Schedule, with links to many readings

Lectures

Nationalism, ethnicity, and religion in Africa (25-Sep)

Nation, religion, secularism (1-Oct)

Oct 2: Religion and freedom of expression. Marcel Khalife & Mahmud Darwish, "Ana Yusuf ya Abi". (music, documentary film; Middle East, Islam)

Assignment: Read the following.

BBC story I

BBC story II

Follow these chronological newspaper archives:

1 2 3 4 5

Watch this interview with Marcel Khalife

Browse the summary of this controversy on Marcel Khalife's own website

Read the poem...

Listen to the song...

Read the Petition

More readings

Maps

Map of Ottoman expansion

Audio/Visual materials

Edward Said on Orientalism:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4: