Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World

4.0 credits

Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World explores the sites and emblematic figures who contributed to the emancipation of the Black world, understood here as the African continent and peoples of African descent. Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, assumed a decisive role in the articulation of the narrative of black emancipation. The course introduces students to charismatic figures such as Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela who all have articulated a powerful network of black international to counter racism in the United States of America, apartheid in South Africa or colonialism on the African continent. Cultural producers, activists and writers such as Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Billie Holiday, Lorraine Hansberry, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, and Maryse Condé have contributed advance the global struggle for the emancipation of the Black world.