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A List of resources for Understanding Africa

SOAS Marking Criteria

The Africa centre : A presentation by Ken Tharp, Director of the Africa Centre

SOAS EU AFRICA

ESSAY QUESTIONS

Turnitin - Assignment submission

Session 1: Pre-colonial Africa and its Kingdoms

Session 1 List of references

Pre-colonial Africa and its Kingdoms; LECTURE

PastPresentism, Pre-colonial Africa, Richard Reid

Levtzion, ‘Islam in the Sudanic Kingdoms’, in Levtzion, Ancient Ghana and Mali, 183­-99

David C. Conrad, ‘Islam in the Oral Traditions of Mali; Bilali and Surakata

T. Niane. Sundiata; An Epic of Old Mali (1965)

Dr Gus Casely-Hayford: On Pre-Colonial Africa and its Kingdoms

Session 2 : Africa: The Colonial Period

Session 2 List of references

Session 2 Colonial Africa

COLONIAL ETHNOLOGY AND POLITICAL RATIONALITY IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA, by GARY WILDER

The Berlin Conference and Colonial africa

Session 3: The Independences, and Postcolonial Africa

Session 3 List of references

Session 3 The Independences &amp; Post-colonial Africa

Decolonizing Africa, A. Hughes

NATIONALISM GOing GLOBAL

Continuities, Dislocations and Transformations; 50 Years of Independence in Afri

Week 1 Friday Activity

List of references

Can Africa claim the 21st Century - WB

Excerpts from The Handbook of Africas International Relations - Murithi

Building Regional Markets AGOA and the Economic Partnerships Agreements - Kuhlmann and Kimenyi

Session 4: Overview of main Pan-African institutions

List of references (1)

1 Pan-African scholarship

1 The AU Conflict Management capabilities, IIGG WorkingPaper7

The African Union: Towards a Peaceful, Prosperous &amp; Integrated Africa

Session 4 - Pan-African Institutions

Session 5: Contemporary Art in Africa

LECTURE - Contemporary Art in Africa

Contemporary Art in Africa

REFERENCES – Contemporary Art in Africa

0 Enwezor, Short century

Venice Biennale honours Africas bottle-top artist El Anatsui - BBC News

The New Face of African Art - WSJ copy

Session 6: Music in Africa

Music in Africa LECTURE

Readings; Music in Africa

The transformative power of oral storytelling

THE GRIOTS OF WEST AFRICA – MUCH MORE THAN STORY TELLERS

Jazz Feedback to Africa

Savannaphone - Talking Machines Hit West Africa

Activity 1: The Africa Collection at the British Museum

List of references

Phillips WhereIsAfrica

The Sainsbury African Galleries at the British Museum

Session 7: African languages and cultures: An overview

List of references

1 The Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights (UNESCO)

1 The Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights 1

1 The Languages of Africa, Webb and Kembo-Sure

1 UNESCO 2012 Why Language Matters

Using African Languages in African universities , by H. Ekkehard Wolff

0 Session 7 NEW

Session 8: Migration and Diaspora in Africa

Lecture Last v.- Migration and Diaspora 17 July 2018

0 Readings; Diaspora and Migration in Africa

New Humanitarians 3rd proofs-1 - Robtel

Diaspora Humanitarianism - DEMAC first report

Session 9: Religion in Africa

LECTURE - Religions in Africa 2018

References on Religion in Africa

OnapajoUsman 2015a

Loimeier 2013a

Freeman 2013a

Session 10: African languages and cultures: A country case study

List of references

Multilingual-cameroon-081101

Anglophone Cameroon Literature at Crossroads Bate Besong Interview

Levtzion, ‘Islam in the Sudanic Kingdoms’, in Levtzion, Ancient Ghana and Mali, 183-99

Session 3 The Independences & Post-colonial Africa

The African Union: Towards a Peaceful, Prosperous & Integrated Africa