Final-Terms Flashcards
Biafra
The Igbo section of Nigeria that became independent from Nigeria during the civil war
Nigerian civil war
1967-1970
Ethnographic present
The false notion that a culture is timeless and doesn’t modernize, and isn’t “authentic” if it is modernized.
Three T’s-Timeless, Tribal, Traditional
Aina onabolu
Believes that all Africans should take art
-1882-1963
Natural synthesis
Jsh
Negritude
- French Africans pride in “blackness” and traditional African values.
- Négritude is a literary and ideological movement, developed by francophone black intellectuals, writers, and politicians in France in the 1930s. The Négritude writers found solidarity in a common black identity as a rejection of French colonial racism. They believed that the shared black heritage of members of the African diaspora was the best tool in fighting against French political and intellectual hegemony and domination. They formed a realistic literary style and formulated their Marxist ideas as part of this movement.
Ousmane sembene
Senegalese filmmaker, novelist, activist. Made the film Xala-a satirical criticism.
Apartheid
Meaning-apartness
Instituted by the Afrikaner National Party, it’s a set of laws but also ideology that whites and blacks are meant to be separated.
National African congress
- Political party that opposed Apartheid
- democratic, South African
Steven Biko
Medical student and founder of the liberation movement called Black Consciousness Movement.
-Beaten to death
Truth and reconciliation commission
- 1995-2001
- investigated human rights violations that occurred during apartheid
- wanted to stop the cycle of violence
Brain drain
Phenomenon that most highly skilled and educated Africans leave the country/continent for better opportunities.
Black power
Movement in the US to reclaim African roots, be proud of heritage
Afro
Wearing your hair naturally to go back to “Africanness”
Carnival
Carnival-Catholic party before lent
