AP/SOSC4510 6.0 A: African Popular Culture
Offered by: SOSC
Session
Fall 2019
Term
Y
Format
SEMR
Instructor
Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite
This course investigates the multiple dimensions of African popular culture through looking at forms of cultural productivity: music, film, literature, theatre, cartoon, sport, leisure and aspects of material culture. It also explores ways in which cultural productivity is linked to various social relations, ethnic identities and the politics that have characterized nationalist and post-independence politics in Africa.
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