52 Minutes Entitled Africa Essay
- Watch the video “Africa Straight Up” by Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie
- Go through Art Slides, Chapter I
- Go through the PDF Presentation “A Cartographic and Historiographic Essay” Slideshow
- Go through the PDF Presentation “Physical Context of African History Geography and Environment”
- Go through the recommended maps of Africa (Links to an external site.)
- Prepare for the map quiz (Africa’s Political Map, Capital Cities and Countries’ names and locations)
- Go through the PDF Presentation “Africa and Human Origins”
- Watch the entire Part 1 (52 minutes), entitled “Origins (Links to an external site.),” of the video series “Africa’s Great Civilizations” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (FIU Library Streaming)
- Participate in due time in Module 1 discussions
You should engage in writing this essay only and only after having completed Module 1 and covered all of its materials (see the module). Your essay should clearly separate your answer to each question by recalling the number of each question. You should submit your answer in one single Word document. Your entire essay should have 3 to 5 double spaced pages. You must use what you need to answer each question completely.
No research is required to answer this question. The course materials should be more than enough to provide you with the information needed to answer the question. When referring to published documents (including this course’s textbook and additional readings, videotaped lectures, power point presentations, and films), you must cite them properly, following the author-date Chicago manual of Style (see the Welcome page on this website).
- What conceptions of Africa do you bring to the course? Be honest- there’s no right or wrong answer.
- From what you have heard, read, or watched (films of various kinds), what are some common stereotypes held about Africa?