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OSPGEN 26: Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies

The main principle for this course will be to use Accra as a way to illuminate cities of the student's own choice, wherever they might be located.? This means that the course will be inherently comparative and that features of Accra will be used to ignite students' understanding of details of the urban in general.? Features of other African cities such as Cairo,?Lagos, Kinshasa, and Johannesburg will be introduced primarily through literary, anthropological, and other humanistic texts. Spatial concepts such as spatial morphology, spatial traversal, means of locomotion, space-time anamorphism (for science fiction), topoanalysis (from phenomenology), and chronotypes?(from Bakhtin) will be progressively introduced and applied to different urban features.? There will also be trips to Elmina, and Cape Coast Castles, old seats of the European trading presence on the Gold Coast/Ghana and sites of the slave trade.? From 1877 to 2015 Christiansborg was the seat of both colonial and post-colonial governments.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: Quayson, A. (PI)
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