Culture of West Africa 3600-7-AF1-KAZ
The course aims at showing selected issues connected with West African culture in order to make the students understand the way the inhabitants of West Africa behave by referring to their most important values. A special focus is placed on Nigeria - the most populated and most diversified African country (from the social, cultural, ethnic and religious point of view). It is often called “the heart of Africa” due to the fact that processes taking place in this country affect the whole region of West Africa.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
- has basic knowledge of particular problems pertaining to the culture of west African region (within the scope of culture)
- demonstrates good knowledge of contemporary cultural life in West Africa
Skills:
- can use the knowledge in the field of African studies to solve problems relating to cultural differences in professional situations
- can evaluate, select and describe most important products of contemporary culture in West African countries
Social competence:
- understands the need to learn all one’s life
- can establish relations and cooperate with representatives of other cultures
- has awareness of the cultural distinctness and its religious, philosophical, traditional and historical roots and its significance for understanding modern world; understands the role of West Africa
- recognizes the need of dialogue between cultures
Assessment criteria
attendance control,
student's presentation/essay
final written assessment
Practical placement
none
Bibliography
Peter Cunliffe-Johnes. 2010. My Nigeria: five decades of independence. Palgrave Macmillan.
Jan Jacek Pawlik. 2018. Twórcza codzienność mieszkańców Lomé. Olsztyn: UWM.
Stanisław Piłaszewicz. 1995. Egzotyczny świat sawanny. Kultura i cywilizacja ludu Hausa. Warszawa: Dialog.
Isa Yusuf Chamo. 2016. “Language and Identity in Africa: the use of place names as part of a person’s name in Hausa”, [w:] N. Pawlak, H. Rubinkowska-Anioł, I. Will (red.), African Studies: Forging New Perspectives and Directions, Warszawa: Elipsa, 116-127.
Izabela Will, Mustapha Ahmad. 2008. „Symbolika gestów w kulturze hausa”, [w:] N. Pawlak (red.), Języki Azji i Afryki w komunikacji międzykulturowej. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa UW, 243-265.
Izabela Will. 2014, “Quo vadis, Nollywood?”, [w:] I. Kraska-Szlenk, B. Wójtowicz (red.), Current research in African studies: Papers in Honour of Mwalimu Dr. Eugeniusz Rzewuski, Warszawa: Elipsa, pp. 393-402.
Izabela Will. 2014, „Stylistyka filmów hausańskich”, [w:] Sztuka Afryki w kolekcjach i badaniach polskich, Szczecin: Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, pp. 95-109.
Brian Larkin. 2008. Signal and Noise. Media, Infastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
C. W. Wigwe.1990. Language, culture and society in West Africa / [ed. by]. Elms Court: Arthur H. Stockwell
Anna Niedźwiedź. 2014. „Obrazki z pogrzebu. Wizualność i żałoba we współczesnej Ghanie”. Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego MCCCXXXVI Prace etnograficzne.
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