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Africa and the Politics of Knowledge

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21G.025
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2019English
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This course considers how, despite its immense diversity, Africa continues to hold purchase as both a geographical entity and meaningful knowledge category. It examines the relationship between articulations of “Africa” and projects like European imperialism, developments in the biological sciences, African de-colonization and state-building, and the imagining of the planet’s future.

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