The Postcolonial Experience

3 credit hours · Undergraduate

Students are introduced to contemporary Francophone African societies through literature and culture. The reading and discussion of short stories, poetry, drama, films, oral productions, popular songs, cartoons and paintings, enable students to explore the major issues that reflect African 'postcolonial experience': the colonial encounter and its consequences, conflicts between tradition and modernity, gender issues and African identities, the disillusions of independence, migrations, political power and (post)colonial violence.