Africa was our next unit, and we began by reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. In this unit we looked at western ideology and its affect on native culture in Africa. The above video clip is from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, which is an appropriation of Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
In this section we also read the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. This amazing novel (my favorite of the semester) Looks at the life of a native Nigerian and how it is flipped upside down upon the arrival of Christian Missionaries. The above video clip does an amazing job showing the ideas and practices that we spoke about related to the unit.
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