AFRI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Popular Alternative, Sub-Saharan Africa, Thomas Sankara

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

Document Summary

Idea of africa is a complex one with muliple genealogies and meanings. In roman imes north africa was called libya before it was its own coninent. Divorce of north africa started with the arab invasion (17th century) These discourses of africa are rooted in the colonial library . No one can deny the geographical enity called africa exist. Noion of the triple heritage highlights the diverse sources of african ideniies. Two inter-related languages: predominace european languages and african languages. The marjority of africans are not the languages of public and intellectual discourse. Most globalizaion brought a new context to africas enduring language. Both african languages are popular on the internet. There is a growing of non-english speakers world wide. The future of african and ideniies will decided in the mass media. Youth are inding new ways to engage with africa. People had their own way of living and conlict is happening now because they were all put together.