Spring 2025
Rosemary Popoola
3 credits
Fulfills Literature, Elementary
MWF 2:25 PM - 3:15 PM
482 Van Hise Hall
Description
1. Learn about queer Africans lthrough cultural and artistic material, including film, memoirs, biographies, documentaries, spoken words, literature, music, and visual arts.
2. Explore what it means to be a sexual minority on the continent by exploring complexities and the challenges faced by queer Africans as they navigate coming out and finding love, pleasure, and sociality.
3. The overlap and departures in queer African lives and Queer elsewhere.
Format
African 203 is offered as a writing intensive course (Com B). It meets weekly. Lecture meetings are not just about listening but also about active participation. They consist of short mini-lectures delivered by the instructor or Guest lecturer and student reading presentations. Students prepare for class by reading, composing journal entries, or planning their reading presentations, ensuring an interactive and engaging learning experience.
Typical topics and/or Schedule
Week 1: What does it mean to be Queer and African?
Week 2: Quilts of Queer Lives I: Closet, Coming Out and Career
Week 3:: Quilts of Queer Lives II: memoirs/autobiography
Week 4: Queer African Films.