African Cultures
0
2017-2018
01012221
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
Home readings of texts, maps, etc. The teacher will open the lecture by exposing a theme through the support of texts and images, with the intention of inducing collective debate about fundamental facts and concepts.
Learning Outcomes
To know basic African civilization: geography, history, tradition, culture and arts.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. African civilization: human and physical geography. The African slave trade, the Berlin Conference and Modern Colonialism.
2. Cheik Anta Diop’s theories and Afrocentrism. Black Renaissance and Modernity: Pan-africanism, Negritude and national liberation.
3. Ancient Africa in the Modern Africa: masters of knowledge, sonorities and writing.
3.1. Ancient kingdoms. Dogons, Ogotommeli and cosmogony.
3.2. Brief introduction to Islam. The Fulas and the Sufis. Amadou Hampâté Bâ and the ancient texts.
3.3. The oral epic, writing and music.
4. Angola. Outlining history and society. Painting and other arts.
5. Mozambique. Outlining history and society. Painting and other arts.
6. Cape Verde. Outlining history and society. Culture and creoleness.
7. São Tomé and Príncipe. Outlining history and society. Traditional theater and other arts.
8. Guinea. Outlining history and society. Culture.
Head Lecturer(s)
José Luís Pires Laranjeira
Assessment Methods
Continuous evaluation
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Other: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%
Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
CHABAL, P., D. Birmingham, J. Forrest, M. Newitt, & G. Seibert, E. S. Andrade (2002). A history of postcolonial lusophone Africa. London: Hurst, 2002.
CRISTÓVÃO, F. (Ed.), Amorim, M. A., Marques, M. L. G., & Moita, S. B. (2005). Dicionário temático da lusofonia. Lisboa: Texto.
DAVIDSON, B. (1981). À descoberta do passado de África. Lisboa: Sá da Costa.
KI-ZERBO, J. (n. d.). História da África negra (Ed. rev. e actualiz.). (Vols. 1-2). Mem Martins: Europa-América.
POURTIER, R. (2001). Afriques noires. Paris: Hachette.
SOW, A. I. et al.(1980). Introdução à cultura africana. Lisboa: Ed. 70.