AFRI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: African Studies, World History, World Literature

• School: Carleton University
• Department: African Studies
• Course: AFRI 1001
• Professor: Nduka Otiono

Document Summary

Things fall apart: history, narraive, ideology and representaion. The conlict tradiional values ( customs) and insituions vs western values. The objecive or cultural poliics or clash of civilizaion. To look back and try to ind out where the rain began to beat us. Basically a set of idea that structure a group"s noions of reality, a system of representaions or a code of meanings. Group of people who share ideology share a common set of ideas as to what the world is like. This set of ideas determines what people in the group do, how they see themselves, what they value, what they think is important for the funcioning or that group. In the light of 3 novels for the course. Is about the common experiences of diverse people and cultures. Is one of movement: diaspora / migraion between places of people looking for/deining/ shaping/ creaing home.