Transition(s)

Harvard FAS

In this introductory course, we examine and question the sameness often ascribed to African literature as a sociological and anthropological archive. We will explore stories of mobility, movement, and exchange, drawing from the archives of Transition, a magazine founded in 1961 in Kampala, Uganda, and now housed at Harvard. Transition fostered some of the most engaging intellectual debates of its time, introducing a critical idiom that shaped a generation's postcolonial and postnational…