Barcelona

International Summer School

Africa Course Outline

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
University of South Africa


Lecture 1: Introducing Africa and challenges of coloniality

Readings
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Decoloniality in Africa: A Continuing Search for a New World Order. The
Australasian Review of African Studies, 36(2), December 2015, pp. 22-50.

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Genealogies of Coloniality and Implications for Africas Development.

Africa Development, XL (3), 2015, pp. 13-40.

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa: Myths of Decolonization.

Dakar: CODESRIA Books, 2013. (Chapter 1)

Lecture 2: Rethinking Thinking on Africa: The Interventions of Mahmood Mamdani

Readings

Mahmood Mamdani, Historicizing Power and Responses to Power: Indirect rule and Its Reform
Social Research, 66 (3), (Fall 1999), pp. 859-886.

Mahmood Mamdani, Africa: Democratic Theory and Democratic Struggles. Economic and Political
Weekly, 27(41), (October 10, 1992), pp. 2228-2232.

Mahmood Mamdani, Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political
Legacy of Colonialism. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43 (4), (October 2001), pp. 651-
664.

Mahmood Mamdani, Beyond Nuremberg: The Historical Significance of Post-Apartheid Transition in

South Africa. Politics and Society, 43(1), pp. 61-88.

Lecture 3: Ngugi wa Thiongos Contribution to Decolonial Thinking

Readings

Ngugi wa Thiongo, Decolonizing the Minds: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Oxford:
James Currey, 1986.
Ngugi wa Thiongo, Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2012.
Ngugi wa Thiongo, Something Torn and New: Towards an African Renaissance. New York: Basic
Civitas Books, 2009.
Ngugi wa Thiongo, Re-Membering Africa. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 2009.


Lecture 4: Colonialism, Nationalism and Decolonization in Southern Africa

Bernard Magubane, The Mounting Class and National Struggles in South Africa, Review, 8(2), (Fall
1984), pp. 197-231.

Bernard Magubane, Social Construction of Race and Citizenship in South Africa. Paper Presented
at the United Nation Economic and Social Affairs Conference on Racism in South Africa, 2001.

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. Fiftieth Anniversary of Decolonization in Africa: A Moment of

Celebration or Critical Reflection? Third World Quarterly, 33(1), 2012, pp. 71-89.

Lecture 5: Rhodes Must Fall: South African Universities as Site of Struggles