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2024-2025 Catalogue

FREN 33500 - West Africa & France: Encounters Since 1900

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
(AFST, CMLT)
This course explores complex encounters that have shaped both France and francophone West Africa, a region that includes the present-day countries of Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Tacking back and forth between West African and French contexts, we will examine themes such as colonialism, decolonization, nation-building, migrations, immigrant communities, diaspora, and francophonie. Prerequisite(s): FREN-22000 or FREN-224xx [AH, GE, PPRE]