African 905: Decolonization ⎻ Theory & Practice

This course studies decolonization as both theory and practice, centering on African thinkers and histories. How have African political leaders, thinkers, artists, and writers imagined decolonization and how have the worked in the world to make it real? Course texts may include:

• Amilcar Cabral, selected readings
• Frantz Fanon, selected readings
• Bernard Forjwuor, Critique of Political Decolonization
• Adom Getachew, Worldmaking After Empire
• Premesh Lalu, Undoing Apartheid
• Anne Garland Mahler, From the Tricontinental to the Global South
• Achille Mbembe, Out of the Dark Night
• Carina Zaayman, Anarchival Practices: the Clanwilliams Arts Project as Re-imagining Custodianship of the Past
• David Scott, Omens of Adversity