AFR 105
How to Save Africa Fall 2013
Division II Writing Skills
Cross-listed HIST 105 / INST 105
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How to save Africa? This course will not provide an easy answer to that question. Instead, we will study how and why that query has become ubiquitous and legitimate in the first place. Salvation projects have been numerous in African history: the antislavery campaigns; the so-called civilizing mission; structural adjustment programs; and, more recently, humanitarian campaigns like “Save Darfur” and “Kony 2012.” We will use recent scholarship to discuss different points of views on these projects. We will also closely read a set of primary sources — memoirs, newspaper articles, and films on the “salvation complex” in Africa — and we will subject them to similar questions: what did Africa need to be delivered from? Who were the agents of redemption? What were the effects of the salvation projects? How did Africans react to them? Finally, we will examine the changes and continuities between the different projects of salvation, and consider how the study of history might help us understand Africa’s position in the world today.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 15-19
Class#: 1935
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: students will be evaluated on class participation, response papers, three short essays, and a final research paper
Prerequisites: first-year or sophomore standing
Enrollment Preferences: first-year students, then sophomores who have not previously
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
HIST 105 Division II AFR 105 Division II INST 105 Division II
Attributes: HIST Group A Electives - Africa

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