Postcolonial African Historiographies

3 credit hours · Undergraduate

Students explore how fiction rewrites and reinterprets historical facts in a way that challenges our understanding of African history. Major themes include creative writing as historical evidence, who tells African history and why it matters, how African historiographies subvert Western representations of Africa. Course materials include scholarly articles, museum exhibits and works of fiction that illustrate issues of historical narration, memory, trauma, resistance, and the persistence of the past in the present.