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The African Studies Program At Morgan State University
African Film Festival Week — April 14 – 17, 2003
Spring 2003 Lecture Series
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The African Studies Program At Morgan State University
ANNOUNCES
THIRD ANNUAL AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL WEEK
April 14 – 17, 2003
FREE ADMISSION
Monday, April 14
KEÏTA (Burkina Faso, 1995). Director, Dani Kouyaté. 94 minutes. In Jula and French with English subtitles. Location: Murphy 127* Time: 5:30PM
Tuesday, April 15
LUMUMBA (Haïti/Congo, 2000). Director: Raoul Peck. 115 minutes. In Lingala and French with English subtitles. Location: Mc Mechen 303*;Time: 5:30PM
Wednesday, April 16
FAAT KINÉ (Sénégal, 2000). Director, Ousmane Sembène. 110 minutes. In Wolof and French with English subtitles. Location: McMechen 303; Time: 5:30PM
Thursday, April 17
LES SILENCES DU PALAIS (Tunisia, 1996). Director, Moufida Tlali. 127 minutes. In Arabic with English subtitles. Location: Murphy 127 ; Time: 5:30PM
For further information, please contact Mrs. Jacqueline Hurtt or Dr. Mbare Ngom, Department of Foreign Languages @ (443) 885-3094.E-mail:aspmsu@morgan.edu
site: http://jewel.morgan.edu/~aspmsu
McMechen = School of Business; Murphy = Murphy Fine Arts
THE AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
ANNOUNCES
SPRING 2003 LECTURE SERIES:
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN LITERATURE IN THE 1980s
DEFINITIONS AND THEMES
Presenter: Mr. Paul Ndong, Cultural and Educational Attach, Embassy of Senegal in Washington, DC.
11:00AM Parren Mitchell Room, Second Floor SOPER LIBRARY.
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
CONFLICTING CULTURES: MODERN VS TRADITIONAL
Presenter: Dr. Rachida El Diwani, Distinguished Fulbright Scholar Professor of Comparative
Literatureand Civilization, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.
11:00AM Parren Mitchell Room, Second Floor SOPER LIBRARY
May 5, 2003, Dr. El Diwani will make classroom presentations on Islam and Egyptian Women
Thursday, May 8, 2003
AFRICAS LONG MARCH TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: THE CASE OF ALGERIA
Presenter: Dr. Saddek Aouadi, Distinguished Fulbright Scholar Assistant Professor of Language and
Literature, Universit de Annaba, Annaba, Algeria.
11:00AM: Parren Mitchell Room, Second Floor, SOPER LIBRARY
Thursday, May 8, 2003 (PM), Dr. Aouadi will make classroom presentations on
Maghrebian Literature Between Languages and Cultures
If you are interested in inviting Drs. El Diwani and Aouadi to speak in your classes, and for further information regarding these events, please contact Mrs. Jacqueline Hurtt or Dr. M. Mbare Ngom @ (443)885-3094. E-mail:aspmsu@morgan.edu Site: http://jewel.morgan.edu/~aspmsu
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Marketing Ghana as a Mecca for the African-American TouristThe Afro-American tourist market constitutes an important niche market. At the moment, the U.S.A is Ghana’s second highest tourist generating market with the U.K being the first. In 2003, some 27,000 tourists arrived in Ghana from the Americas. Approximately 10,000 were African-Americans. Also, about a thousand are living and working in Accra. The African-American tourist market is Ghana’s niche market because it has the greatest growth potential in terms of arrivals and receipts. This is because the African-American tourist of today is more interested in exploring his/her cultural and historical heritage; the very products that Ghana offers. Also, they have a $300 billion spending power and spend 98% of their household income. The total income of this segment of the American population is the largest of all the ethnic groups at $485 and projected to reach $1.01 trillion by 2010. In a 2000 Gallup poll commissioned by the National Summit on Africa, 73% of African-Americans were interested in learning more about Africa.
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Strange Fruit Lynching Report / Anniversary of a Lynching
Willie McGhee Lynching / My Grandfather’s Execution
Dr. Robert Lee Interview / African American dentist in Ghana
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Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (19641974) and Bob Marley & the Wailers (19741981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement (of which he was a committed member), to a worldwide audience.
Exodus
Exodus: movement of jah people! oh-oh-oh, yea-eah! Men and people will fight ya down (tell me why!) When ya see jah light. (ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!) Let me tell you if youre not wrong; (then, why? ) Everything is all right. So we gonna walk – all right! – through de roads of creation: We the generation (tell me why!) (trod through great tribulation) trod through great tribulation. Exodus, all right! movement of jah people! Oh, yeah! o-oo, yeah! all right! Exodus: movement of jah people! oh, yeah! Yeah-yeah-yeah, well! Uh! open your eyes and look within: Are you satisfied (with the life youre living)? uh! We know where were going, uh! We know where were from. Were leaving babylon, Were going to our father land. 2, 3, 4: exodus: movement of jah people! oh, yeah! (movement of jah people!) send us another brother moses! (movement of jah people!) from across the red sea! (movement of jah people!) send us another brother moses! (movement of jah people!) from across the red sea! Movement of jah people! Exodus, all right! oo-oo-ooh! oo-ooh! Movement of jah people! oh, yeah! Exodus! Exodus! all right! Exodus! now, now, now, now! Exodus! Exodus! oh, yea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eah! Exodus! Exodus! all right! Exodus! uh-uh-uh-uh! Move! move! move! move! move! move! Open your eyes and look within: Are you satisfied with the life youre living? We know where were going; We know where were from. Were leaving babylon, yall! Were going to our fathers land. Exodus, all right! movement of jah people! Exodus: movement of jah people! Movement of jah people! Movement of jah people! Movement of jah people! Movement of jah people! Move! move! move! move! move! move! move! Jah come to break downpression, Rule equality, Wipe away transgression, Set the captives free. Exodus, all right, all right! Movement of jah people! oh, yeah! Exodus: movement of jah people! oh, now, now, now, now! Movement of jah people! Movement of jah people! Movement of jah people! Movement of jah people! Movement of jah people! Movement of jah people! Move! move! move! move! move! move! uh-uh-uh-uh! Move(ment of jah people)! Move(ment of jah people)! Move(ment of jah people)! Move(ment of jah people)! movement of jah people! Move(ment of jah people)! Move(ment of jah people)! Movement of jah people! Movement of jah people! Movement of jah people!
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Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities
By Godfrey Mwakikagile
(Grand Rapids, Michigan: National Academic Press, 2005) 302 pages
Chapter Four: The Attitude of Africans Towards African Americans
Chapter Six: Misconceptions About Each Other
The Joseph Project: Ghana Reaches Out to the Diaspora
Gateway to West Africa ? by Stacey Barney
Should the African Diaspora have free-visa access to Africa?
For African-Americans In Ghana, the Grass Isn’t Always Greener
African-American Association of Ghana Condemn WSJ
Marketing Ghana As A Mecca For The African-American Tourist
A Rejoinder to The WSJ Article “Tangled Roots”
Presidents Bill Clinton and Jerry John Rawlings February 24, 1999
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Chiefs in Cape Coast, Ghana / Grand Durbar Parade
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Dentist Dr. Robert Lee
Championed African-American Community in Ghana
In the mid-1950s, Dr. Robert Lee, a dentist from South Carolina, moved to Ghana to escape racism in the south. Over the next half century, Lee became a fixture in the African-American community in the West African country. Dr. Lee died on Monday, July 5th at the age of 90. But few here in his home state, or in the States at all, knew of his work. But in Ghana, he made a name for himself. Dr. Robert Lee, trained as a dentist, moved to Accra in the mid-1950s. Over the past half century, Lee became a fixture in the black American ex-patriot community in Ghana. NPR
Host Michel Martin talks to NPR West African correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about his life and legacy. Dr. Robert Lee NPR Interview
Dentist Championed African-American Community In Ghana
Dr. Robert Lee (right) in 2009 with Kwame Zulu Shabazz
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The State of African Education (April 200)
Attack On Africans Writing Their Own History Part 1 of 7
Dr Asa Hilliard III speaks on the assault of academia on Africans writing and accounting for their own history.
Dr Hilliard is A teacher, psychologist, and historian.
Part 2 of 7 / Part 3 of 7 / Part 4 of 7 / Part 5 of 7 / Part 6 of 7 / Part 7 of 7
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan / The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll / Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for Slavery
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804 / January 1, 1804 — The Founding of Haiti
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Basil Davidson’s “Africa Series”
Different But Equal / Mastering A Continent / Caravans of Gold / The King and the City / The Bible and The Gun
West Africa Before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850
By Basil Davidson
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a collection of fourteen essays by scholars and creative writers from Africa and the Americas. Called one of two significant critical works on Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late 1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of Carter G. Woodson and Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an historical context for understanding 20th-century creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone writers, such as Cuban Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist, and scholar Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the significance of Negritude in Latin America. This collaborative text set the tone for later conferences in which writers and scholars worked together to promote, disseminate, and critique the literature of Spanish-speaking people of African descent. . . . Cited by a literary critic in 2004 as “the seminal study in the field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which most scholars in the field ‘cut their teeth’.”
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
By Melissa V. Harris-Perry
According to the author, this society has historically exerted considerable pressure on black females to fit into one of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless Mammys behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to white folks domestic concerns, often at the expense of those of her own familys needs. By contrast, the relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry points out how the propagation of these harmful myths have served the mainstream culture well. For instance, the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for black females to feel a maternal instinct towards Caucasian babies.
As for the source of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their own bodies during slavery given that they were being auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless, it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate indiscriminately.
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The White Masters of the World
From The World and Africa, 1965
W. E. B. Du Bois Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization (Fletcher)
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