Welcome to the Good Life: African Utopias

How do we imagine and practice good living in social contexts? And how do we recognize when we fail to attain such good living? In this course, we engage African proposals for utopias and dystopias within difficult political conditions. We will analyze various media (academic texts, novels, films, songs) to understand how various African thinkers and artists have imagined and enacted optimistic or pessimistic futures for the continent. Through classrooms activities and assignments, students will appreciate what it takes to experience, analyze and design society within specific local and global parameters.