PACS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Frantz Fanon

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Peace And Conflict Studies
• Course: PACS 10
• Professor: Zook, D C

Document Summary

Pacs 10 lecture 10 a different view: african theories of peace and justice. Explaining how africa became the way it is. Explaining how africa was in the past. Explaining how africa can be in the future. Postcolonial perspectives: eternally returning to the west. Apartheid: south africa as exception and rule it"s not like any other african country. African american: writing from without and writing from within. Precolonial: africa as it was true authentic africa. Postcolonial: narrating and documenting the injustices of colonial africa in the present. One of the most foundational thinkers of postcolonial africa. European imperialism revealed the hypocrisy of western philosophy. The colonial moment: the indigenous was taken by the settler, and injustice became a way of life. The struggle to reclaim the past forces africans into the system of the oppressor: humiliation, dehumanization, and alienation. The structural violence of colonization saturated africa and still remains after decolonization. Rediscovering the authentic voice: identity as narration.