IDEAS FOR LARGE ASSIGNMENTS
SUCH AS SRP, SOP, KS

Short story anthologies:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The Thing Around Your Neck”, 2009
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (ed.): “One World – A global anthology of short stories”, 2009
Ama Ata Aidoo: “Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories”, 2012
Segun Afolabi: “A Life Elsewhere”, 2007
Uwem Akpan: “Say You’re One of Them”, 2008
Sefi Atta: “News From Home”, 2010
Helon Habila (ed.): “Dreams, Miracles and Jazz: An Anthology of New Africa Fiction”, 2007
Helon Habila (ed.): “The Granta Book of the African Short Story”, 2011

The Biafran War (English and History or Media Studies)
“Half of a Yellow Sun” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2006 (novel)
“Half of a Yellow Sun” by Biyi Bandele, 2013 (film)
“Jesus Christ Airlines” by Lasse Jensen, 2001 (documentary)
“Let Not This Fire Spread” by Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and J.P. Clark, 2012 (State of the Nation appeal)
“Religion and African Civil Wars” by Niels Kastfelt (ed.), 2005 (research)
“Religion and Politics in Nigeria” by Niels Kastfelt, 1994

China in Nigeria and in Africa generally (English and Social Studies or History)
“We love China” by Lindsey Hilsum, in: Granta, 2008 (essay)
“China’s economic invasion of Africa”, The Guardian, 2011 (article)
“Elephants, Ants and Superpowers: Nigeria’s Relations with China. Report 2009”, by G. Mthembu-Salter (report)
“Jonathan applauds phenomenal increase in trade between Nigeria and China”, 2014 (article)

Conflict
“Waiting for an Angel” by Helon Habila, 2004 (novel)
“Lawless” by Sefi Atta, in “News From Home”, 2010 (short story)
“Luxurious Hearses” by Uwem Akpan in “Say You’re One of Them”, 2008 (novella)
“Song for Night” by Chris Abani, 2007 (novella)
“Kalakuta Republic” by Chris Abani, 2000 (poems)

The Danish Gold Coast (English and History or Media Studies)
”Guldkysten” by Daniel Dencik, 2015 (film)
”Kulturmøder – i dansk kolonihistorie” by Marianne Rostgaard and Lotte Schou, 2010

Economy - trade, unemployment, entrepreneurship, corruption, multinational companies (English and Social Studies or Business Economics)
"I Do Not Come to You by Chance", by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, 2009 (novel)
“The Spider King’s Daughter”, by Chibundu Onuzo, 2012 (novel)
“No Vacancy” by Tess Osonye Onwueme, 2005 (drama)
“Oil on Water” by Helon Habila, 2010 (novel)
“Unleashed – A New Paradigm of African Trade With the World”, by John Akhile, 2014 (book)
“The new scramble for Africa”, 2014 (NGO criticism of multinational companies)
“Nigerian doll outselling Barbie” by Afritorial.com, April 2015 (article)
IBIS and Toms: ”Education and cocoa production” and “Partnership 2.0”, 2012
World Association for Sustainable development > “Achieving Sustainable Development in Africa: Science, Technology and Innovation Trajectory” (book)
Dansk Industri – Globaliseringsredegørelse 2014: Temaet ”Afrika under forvandling”

Environmental issues (English and Social Studies, Drama, Chemistry, Geography or Biology)
“Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground”, by Frontline World, 2009 (documentary)
“THE REAL DEAL: Exposing unethical behavior”, by Consumers International, 2008 (report)
“Oil on Water” by Helon Habila, 2010 (novel)
“Then she said it” by Osonye Tess Onwueme, 2002 (drama)

Fela Kuti (English and Music, Drama, History or Social Studies)
“Finding Fela”, 2014, instructor Alex Gibney (film)
“Fela!” (musical)
“Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: The Primary Man Of An African Personality” by Jawi Oladipo-Ola, 2011 (play)
Lyrics by Fela Kuti

Football – identity, migration, globalisation, neo-colonialism? (English and Social Studies, PE or History)
“Soccer Academies in Africa: the 21st Century Scramble for Africa” by Tim Tucker, 2011 (article + list of book titles and links)
“Learning to Kick: African Soccer Schools as Carriers of Development” by Kate Manzo, Impumelelo – The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports, Ohio University, vol. 2, 2007 (article + further reading)
“Football Academies and the Migration of African Football Labor to Europe” Journal of Sport & Social Issues May 2007 31: 143-161 (article)
“Europe is draining Africa of football talent” 2010 (article)
“Is international football migration simply another type of labour migration?” by Benjamin Bowman 2011 (Ghana)
(article + further reading)
“Africa’s place in world soccer” by Paul Darby, University of Ulster (pod cast)
“Africa football and FIFA – politics, colonialism and resistance” by Paul Darby, 2002, London (book)
“Identity and Nation in African Football - Fans, Community and Clubs” by C. Onwumechili and G. Akindes (eds.), 2014 (book)

Gender issues - girls’ education, family structure, human trafficking, sugar daddies etc. (English and Social Studies, Psychology or Danish)
“Purple Hibiscus” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003 (novel)
"We should all be feminists" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 12 April 2013 (TED-talk)
“Everything Good Will Come” by Sefi Atta, 2005 (novel)
“Becky’s Journey”, 2014, instructor Signe Plambech (documentary)
“African Women Writing Resistance” by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, Anne Serafin (eds.), 2011 (anthology) (e.g. the short story “Story of Faith” by Mamle Kabu)
“Swallow” by Sefi Atta, 2010 (novel)
“On Black Sisters' Street” by Chika Unigwe, 2009 (novel)
“The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives” by Lola Shoneyin, 2010 (novel)

Homosexuality (English and Social Studies)
“I am a homosexual, mum”, by Binyawanga Wainaina, 2014 (essay)
“Will Binyavanga Wainaina change attitudes to gay Africans?”, 2014 (article)
“Nigerian authors condemn country's new anti-gay law”, The Guardian, 27 Feb. 2014 (article)
”America” by Chinelo Okparanta from Granta, Issue 118, London, 2012 (novella)

Migration (English and Social Studies)
“Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2013 (novel)
“Ghana Must Go” by Tayie Selasi, 2013 (novel)
“A Bit of Difference” Sefi Atta, 2013 (novel)
“Becoming Abigail” by Chris Abani, 2006 (novella)
“Twilight Trek” by Sefi Atta, 2010 (short story)
“The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in “The Thing Around Your Neck”, 2009 (short story)
“My Mother, the Crazy African” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in “One World – A global anthology of short stories”, 2009 (short story)
“Monday Morning” by Segun Afolabi, in “A Life Elsewhere”, 2007 (short story)
“The Other Hand” by Chris Cleave, 2008 (novel)
DIIS 2014: ”Velkommen til fjerne naboer” http://www.fjernenaboer.dk (documentaries, cases, background, links)
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Nollywood (English and Media Studies)
“Digital as the New Popular in African Cinema?: Case Studies from the Continent” by Lizelle Bisschoff and Ann Overbergh (article)
Jane Bryce: “Signs of Femininity, Symptoms of Malaise: Contextualizing Figurations of “Woman” in Nollywood” (article)
Onookome Okome: “Nollywood, Lagos, and the Good-Time Woman” (article)
Keyan G. Tomaselli and Martin Mhando: ”Journal of African Cinemas” (article)
Bibliography: African film studies: http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/content.php?pid=6493&sid=1495731
Nollywood film trailers
Nollywood films
Nollywood posters


Postcolonial perspectives (English and History, French or German)
“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, 1958 (novel)
“There Was a Country” by Chinua Achebe, 2013 (memoirs)
“The Headstrong Historian” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from “The Thing Around Your Neck” 2009 (short story)
Lyrics by Fela Kuti
“Anglo Files. Journal of English Teaching” #176 Maj 2015. Tema: Postcolonial literatures "AFRIKA-fordomme - fake news og facts" http://www.afrika-danmark.net/

Poverty (English and Social Studies)
”GraceLand” by Chris Abani, 2004 (novel)
“The Spider King’s Daughter” by Chibundu Onuzo, 2012 (novel)
“Children of the Street” by Kwei Kwartey, 2011 (novel)

Social Media (English and Social Studies or Media Studies)
“Yahoo Yahoo” by Sefi Atta, in “News From Home”, 2010 (short story)
“I Do Not Come to You by Chance” by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, 2009 (novel)
Nigerians + Social media [Infographic]: http://socialmediaweek.org/lagos/2012/11/05/blog-2-infographic/
“A social media boom begins in Africa” by André-Michel Essoungou, Africa Renewal, 2010
“´Nigeria’s Mark Zuckerberg´ puts tech into higher learning” by Teo Kermeliotis and Jessica Ellis, CNN, 2014
“Wired Mothers Project”, University of Copenhagen, 2013

Religion, conflicts and peace (English and Religion)
“The Imam and the Pastor” (documentary)
“A discussion with Pastor James Wuye and Imam Muhammad Ashafa”, 2011 (interview)
“Hailstones on Zamfara” by Sefi Atta in “News from Home”, 2010 (short story)
“The Miracle Worker” by Sefi Atta in “News from Home”, 2010 (short story)
“Sharia Law in Nigeria”, BBC, 2009 (documentary)
”Inside a Sharia Court”, BBC Two, 2007 (documentary)
"Når sharia dømmer" DR1, 2009 (documentary)
“Religion and Politics in Nigeria” by Niels Kastfelt, 1994 (research)

Rhetoric and presidential speeches (English and Danish, Social Studies or History):
Goodluck Jonathan (Nigeria’s president 2010-2015)
Muhammadu Buhari (Nigeria’s president 2015-)
John Dramani Mahama (Ghana’s president 2012-)
Barack Obama’s speech in Accra, 11 July 2009

Shakespeare in West Africa (English and Drama):
“Shakespeare in the Bush” by Laura Bohannan, 1966 (article)
“Shakespeare in Calabar” by Tom Hebert (experiences from 1964) (article)
“That Cassius” by Benjamin Madison in: “Night Studies: Stories of a Life in a West African Village”, 2004, p. 69-74. Memoirs from Nigeria in the 1960s (article)
”Shakespeare in Africa: Reflections on the teaching of English literature abroad” by Prof. Manfred Malzahn in: Wasafiri, vol. 11, issue 22, 1995, p. 46-48 (article)
“Otaelo” by Ahmed Yerima, 2002 (‘Othello’ set in the Igbo culture) (drama)
'In iRedu', by Abiola Sobo, 2013 (short film adaptation of 'Macbeth')

TV-series analysis (English and Media Studies):
“Shuga” by Biyi Bandele. Seasons 3 (2013) and 4 (2015) are set in Nigeria
“An African City” by Nicole Amarteifio, 2014 (a Ghanaian equivalent of “Sex and the City”)

Witchcraft (English and Social studies, Psychology, Religion, Danish or Media studies)
“Not without Flowers” by Ammo Darko, 2007 (novel)
“Wife of the Gods” by Kwei Quartey, 2009 (crime novel)
”The witches of Gambaga” by Yaba Badoe, 2010 (documentary)
“What makes a woman a witch?” by Yaba Badoe (article)
“Spirit child”, by Anas Aremeyaw Anas, 2013 (documentary)
“Condemned without trial: Women and witchcraft in Ghana”, report by ActionAid, 2012 (report)
“Deliverance as a way of Confronting Witchcraft in Modern Africa – Ghana as a Case History” by Opoky Onyinah, 2009 (research)
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