Cultural Representations of Post-Coloniality

Class Schedule

Class Schedule, with links to many readings

More readings

• "Orientalism Definition"

• Orientalism Reconsidered, by Edward Said

Maps

Map of Ottoman expansion

Audio/Visual materials

Edward Said on Orientalism:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

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

File:ColonialAfrica.png

Map showing European claimants to the African continent in 1913.

File:ALW1663L.jpg

Map of West Africa, ca. 1736, "explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark, etc."

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Highlife & Ghanaian nationalism

Yoruba identity in Nigeria

Post-colonial Christian influence in Malawi