Meets with ANTH E400, E600, and CMCL C416.  African societies today
utilize radio, television, video, and newspapers in social and
political life, and at the same time customary practices, indigenous
languages, and the arts generally, are attracting renewed interest.
This course will examine multiple genres, forms, and sites where
indigenous knowledge and styles of speaking are utilized to express
issues and perspectives in contemporary social and political life.
Sites to be considered include traditional courts where individuals
bring their disputes originating in everyday life as well as
locations African traditional leaders are utilizing for AIDS
education in southern Africa. Forms and genres will include face-to-
face speaking. courts, music, film and video. Special attention will
be devoted to the role of radio in contemporary social and political
affairs and to the dynamic production and circulation of film and
video in West Africa.
	Students will write two papers, one focused on a specific
location in Africa, and one on a contemporary form or genre
addressing contemporary issues in the social and political life of a
particular society.

	Texts:  (A reader will also be included in the readings).
	
	Maria Eriksson Baaz and Mai Palmberg, eds. SAME AND OTHER:
NEGOTIATING AFRICAN IDENTITY IN CULTURAL PRODUCTION.  (2001)
	Catherine Cole.  Ghana's Concert Party Theatre.  (2001)
	Paulla Ebron.  Performing Africa.  (2002)
	Susan Hirsch, PRONOUNCING AND PERSERVERING: GENDER AND THE
DISCOURSES OF DISPUTING IN AN AFRICAN ISLAMIC COURT.  (1998)
	
	OPTIONAL

	Richaard Fardon and Graham Furniss, eds. AFRICAN BROADCAST
CULTURES:  RADIO IN TRANSITION.(2000)
	Yankah, Kwesi.  SPEAKING FOR THE CHIEF: OKYEAME AND THE
POLITICS OF AKAN ROYAL ORATORY.  (1995.)
	Lindfors, Benth.  Africans on Stage.  (1999)