This is the page where the most updated and complete information about the course will be found. The theme of each week is listed below, and each teacher will upload study aids, such as Power Point presentations, connected to their lectures after the class.

Teachers' presentations that have been made available here may be used for study purposes only. Please do not share the materials outside the course, be it virtually or physically.

Week 1: Course Introduction and African Literature

Course Introduction

Monday 31 March

13:15-15:00, 3-2028, Engelska parken

Teacher: Maria Zirra

Aids/ presentation:

The danger of a single story: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED Talk

Padlet for the class:

An introduction to modern African literature

Tuesday 01 April

11:15-13:00, 3-2028, Engelska parken

Teacher: Maria Zirra

Aids/ presentation:

https://padlet.com/mergicuviitura/introduction-to-african-literature-z43pp1jrjyujwuu1

African Literary Magazines - Then and Now

Thursday 03 April

11:15-13.00

Teacher: Maria Zirra

Aids/ presentation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanzine

Literary Magazines Then and Now class slides.pdf

Week 2: African Literature Continued

Special lecture/ session at NAI: literary genres at the library and material considerations

Wednesday April 9

13.15-15.00, Nordic Africa Institute Library (NAI)

Teacher: Maria Zirra, joined by Åsa Lund Moberg, head librarian at NAI

Aid/ presentation:

Address:

Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Villavägen 6, 752 36 Uppsala

https://maps.app.goo.gl/54FTg8Sq5zvsMmvC7

Thursday 10 April

Literary ephemera

13:15-15:00, 3-2028, Engelska parken

Teacher: Dr. Nicklas Hållén

Aid/presentation:

Nairobi and the Literary Field

Fanzine materials

Ato Malinda

Language and Liberation

Lost and Found in Viwandani

Voices of the Revolution

Behold, your own class fanzines

An Aesthetic of Control

Singzine

We Bring These Knowledges to the Colonial Wound

Week 3: Music

This Month in Africa

Tuesday 15 April
9:15-11:.00
Teachers: Maria Zirra, and Sten Hagberg
Instructions here
Zoom:click to join the Zoom here

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Tuesday 15 April

13.15-15.00

Swahili Literature

Teacher: Niklas Edenmyr

Room Eng/2-1024

Aids/Presentation

Swahili Literature

Bamako Sounds

Thursday 17 April

15:15-17:00, Zoom

Zoom link

Teacher: Ryan Skinner

Aids/presentation:

Music from the Swahili Coast Hulshof 240409.pdf

Class Collaborative Playlist

Week 4: Everyday Cultural Expressions and African Screen Media

Joking cultures in Africa

Tuesday 22 April

14:15 -16:00, 1-0062, Engelska parken

Teacher: Sten Hagberg

Reading:

Joking relationships lecture by Sten Hagberg, 3.Joking Relationships

Ottenberg, S. Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afikpo Igbo. In In R.R. GrinkerLinks to an external site., S.C. LubkemannLinks to an external site. & C. SteinerLinks to an external site. (red.) 2010. Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 335-347. Download PDF

African Screen Media

Film screening and discussion: Sia, le Rêve du Python / Sia, the dream of the python

Thursday 24 April

09:15 - 12:00, 1-0062, Engelska parken

Teacher: Dani Kouyaté

Aids/ presentations:

African Screen Media

Friday 25 April

11:15-13:00, 3-2028, Engelska parken

Teacher: Oulia Makkonen

Aids/ presentations:

African Screen Media

Films shown

Borom Sarret: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U59BefqjjtE

Ogun Ola: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpxXmK4TC04

Exam Consultation Session

Monday 28 April

13.15 to 14.15

Zoom: Link

Teacher Maria Zirra