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FIRST SECTION: MINI-ESSAYS: 30 POINTS (10 POINTS EACH)

1) Why/how is the African/African-American experience non-linear?

2) What are the roles of griots (also know as djelis) in West African culture?

3) What is the socio-historical context of 1968’s Blacks! Blues! Black!?

 

SECOND SECTION: MAXI-ESSAY: 60 POINTS

• What is Maya Angelou’s life and work teaching about the connections between ancient-to-20th-century African and 20th-century African-American culture thus far in this course? Use all documentaries, programs and outside sources to explain your answer.

 

 

 

9 months ago

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