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This course examines how African women writers and filmmakers, representing vastly different historical and cultural experiences, bear witness to war. It interrogates how women who are survivors of war, genocide, and dictatorship use testimony to mediate acts of resistance that track the existence of violence and trauma within multiple and intersecting sites of oppression. The course will feature oral histories by women from the Gambia as well as memoirs, novels, poems, and testimonies from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Sudan, and South Africa. Authors include, Aminata Forna, Lemah Gbowee, Fanta Regina Nacro, Veronique Tadjo, Marie Beatrice Umutesi, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Leila Aboulela, Njabulo Ndebele, and Chimamanda Adichie. Students will examine how these writers resist political and sociocultural silencing systems that reduce traumatic experience to collective amnesia, silence, denial, and terror. Students will be introduced to the historical circumstances that shaped the work of each writer, and we will pose questions about the impact of African women’s trauma narratives on conflict transformation in various African societies.
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Write a paper going beyond your Wikipedia article to advance your own ideas, arguments, and original research about your topic.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
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Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contact |
![]() | This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
This course examines how African women writers and filmmakers, representing vastly different historical and cultural experiences, bear witness to war. It interrogates how women who are survivors of war, genocide, and dictatorship use testimony to mediate acts of resistance that track the existence of violence and trauma within multiple and intersecting sites of oppression. The course will feature oral histories by women from the Gambia as well as memoirs, novels, poems, and testimonies from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Sudan, and South Africa. Authors include, Aminata Forna, Lemah Gbowee, Fanta Regina Nacro, Veronique Tadjo, Marie Beatrice Umutesi, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Leila Aboulela, Njabulo Ndebele, and Chimamanda Adichie. Students will examine how these writers resist political and sociocultural silencing systems that reduce traumatic experience to collective amnesia, silence, denial, and terror. Students will be introduced to the historical circumstances that shaped the work of each writer, and we will pose questions about the impact of African women’s trauma narratives on conflict transformation in various African societies.
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Write a paper going beyond your Wikipedia article to advance your own ideas, arguments, and original research about your topic.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.