Required Readings (on Talis)

Jean and John Comaroff Ethnicity Inc. Please read Chapter 14. On the Affective Economy of Belonging in Corporations and Citizenship (eBook)

Janet McIntosh. Elders and 'Frauds': Commodified Expertise and Politicized Authenticity among Mijikenda in Africa Journal of the International African Institute

Christine Delhaye; Rhoda Woets. The commodification of ethnicity: Vlisco fabrics and Wax cloth Fashion in Ghana International Journal of Fashion Studies

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Further Readings on Talis

Seminar Questions

1. What is the difference between ethnicity and race?

2. What role did ethnicity play in colonial Africa?

3. To what extent is ethnicity a colonial ‘invented’ by colonisers?

4. In what ways has ethnicity been ‘reimagined’ by Africans in post-colonial Africa?