AFRI 2005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kwame Nkrumah, Resource Curse, Tuareg People

• School: Carleton University
• Department: African Studies
• Course: AFRI 2005
• Professor: Nduka Otiono

Document Summary

**take notes because we have to submit a portfolio of notes, exercises. **occasionally we will have free writing, will not be graded, but will be submitted. **essays are to be handed in in class on the due date or before then to the ta. Buzz words/pay close attn. to: diaspora, ecomog/ ecowas, au (african union), nollywood, migration, Sub-sahara, afropolitan", greater maghreb (al-queda in the maghreb), scramble & partition of africa, Resource curse: partly responsible for the scramble and partition for africa (eg. senegal"s blood diamond, niger delta"s oil) New/neo colonialism: colonialism has not ended, thanks to input from people like african leaders, it has just been revised and re-modelled (eg. exploitation of labour, resources, etc. ) Postcolonialism: intellectual discourse that analyze, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism, to the human consequences of controlling a country and establishing settlers for the economic exploitation of the native people and their land.