IAH 205 Lecture 1: IAH recitation notes
5 May 2019
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Course readings week 3- images of africa (starts on pg 7) They have different relationships with news about africa and different goals for it: ex. journalists vs. academics. What do they get out of a particular story/picture/film?2. 2/15/19: captured in igboland w hi sister; separated eventually; reunited eventually; sent on the. Middle passage to barbados; sold between buyers in the americas; freed + writes his. Interesting narrative: saw and wrote about an enormous part of the trade. Don afonso: manikongo of the kingdom of kongo, wrote a series of letters to the king of portugal asking him to stop the salve trade, using shared religious identity, asks for doctors and religious leaders. Sex: before getting on the ship, comments on the people on the ship; skin color and employment, gendered training; language barrier, when he gets off the ship, comments on the number of languages he hears . Penned up together without regard to sex or age .
