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SYLLABUS:

January 19: Introduction: Map, Geography Quiz, Questionnaire.
Music: Baaba Maal, "Daniibe"

January 21: Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Nigeria, 1952)
Music: Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, "Asiko Mi Ti To"

January 26: Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Chinua Achebe, "Work and Play in Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard, in Hopes and Impediments
Music: Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey "Ko Easy Lati"

January 28: Film: Yeelen (Brightness) (Mali, 1987) Capen 31
Music: Salif Keita

February 2: Yeelen (Mali, 1987)
Music: Salif Keita

February 4: Yeelen
MacRae, Suzanne H. "Yeelen: A Political Fable of the Komo Blacksmith/Sorcerers."
Research in African Literatures, 26.3 (Fall 1995): 57-66.
Music: Sanougué Kouyaté

February 9: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Nigeria, 1960)
Music: King Sunny Adé

February 11: Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Film: Sembène, Guelwaar (Senegal, 1992) 114 minutes, Capen 31
Music: Sam Fan Thomas

February 16: Sembène, God's Bits of Wood (Senegal, 1960) (Read to p.135)
J. Suret-Canale, "The French West African Railway Worker's Strike, 1947-1948"
Music: Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck

February 18: Sembène, God's Bits of Wood and Guelwaar
F. Solanas and O. Gettino, "Toward a Third Cinema" in Bill Nichols (ed.) Movies and Methods (1976)
Music: Farafina

February 23: Sembène, God's Bits of Wood
Music: Salif Keita

February 25: Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born (Ghana, 1965)
Guest lecture: Prof. Claude Welch, Political Science
Music: Fela Anikulapo Kuti

March 2: Armah, The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
Music: Franco and Tabu Ley Rochereau

March 4: Armah, The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
Music: Tabu Ley, Papa Wemba

March 16: Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter (Senegal, 1979)
Music: Fela Anikulapo Kuti "Lady," Hugh Masekela

March 18: Bâ, So Long a Letter
Music: Baaba Maal; MC Solaar

March 23: Bessie Head, Maru (Botswana, 1971)
Music: Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand)

March 25: Bessie Head, Maru (Botswana, 1971)
Film: Mapantsula! (South Africa, 1988) Capen 31
Music: Mahlatini and the Mahotella Queens

March 30: Nadine Gordimer, July's People (South Africa, 1981)
Music: Only the Poor Man Feel It

April 1: Gordimer, July's People
Music: Hugh Masekela

April 6: Sony Labou Tansi, The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez (P.R. Congo, 1985)
Music: Tabu Ley Rochereau

April 8: Tansi, The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez
Music: Papa Wemba

April 13: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Zimbabwe, 1988)
Music: Thomas Mapfumo

April 15: Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions Music: Thomas Mapfumo April 20: Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions Film: Everyone's Child (Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1996) Capen 31 Music: Amampondo April 22: Dangarembga, Everyone's Child Music: Thomas Mapfumo April 27: Manu Dibango, Three Kilos of Coffee (Cameroon/France, 1994) Music: Manu Dibango

April 29: Dibango, Three Kilos of Coffee
Music: Manu Dibango

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