AFRSTY 113 UMASS Islam and the African World Exercises – Description
Weeks 3: Islam and the African World
Writing Assignment # 2
Use The 5Ws: Who, What, Where, When, and Why.
Some Writers Add a Sixth Question, How, to the List.
Due Date: Sunday, June 18th.
Watch the Nyag Video: “A History of Islam in Africa.” Write a Reflection Paper based on the following:
Read Robinson, Chap 6: “Western Views of Islam and Africa,” pp. 74-78. Summarize the main points of the chapter.
Read Van Sertima, p. 1- 9. Who were the Moors? What have you learned about their race and origin?
Watch video: “When the Moors Ruled in Europe, PBS Documentary.” Then write a Reflection Paper based on the following:
Read Robinson, Chapter 5: “Muslim Identity and the Slave Trade,” pp. 60-73. Summarize the main points of the chapter.
Read Segal, Chap. 4: “Practice of Slavery,” p. 35-66. Then write a summary of the chapter. In other words, in one sentence per paragraph, try to capture 20 main points in the chapter on Islam and the practice of slavery.
Read Segal, Chap. 12 on “Survivals of Slavery.” Then watch video– “Mauritania: Slavery’s Last Stronghold, CNN Documentary.” Finally, write a Reflection Paper on the survival of slavery in Africa. Here are a few questions to stimulate thought:
How much did you know about this subject prior to this semester?
What were your feelings after viewing the lecture?
What have you learned about the spread of Islam in Africa?
What came as a surprise in this video?
What do you know now that you didn’t know before?
What questions in this lecture would you like answered?
What are the best parts of the lecture? What are the worst parts?
In your opinion, what is the most important line or lines in this video?
Have you changed any ideas you used to have on this subject?
a. How much did you know about the subject before this semester?
b. What were your feelings after viewing the documentary?
c. What have you learned?
What came as a surprise in this documentary?
What do you know now that you didn’t know before?
What questions in this documentary would you like answered?
What are the best parts of the doc.? What are the worst parts?
What is the most important word/phrase/line or lines in this film?
Have you changed any ideas you used to have on this subject?
How much did you know about the subject before this semester?
What were your feelings after viewing this film?
What have you learned?
What came as a surprise in this documentary?
What do you know now that you didn’t know before?
What questions in this documentary would you like answered?
What are the best parts of the doc.? What are the worst parts?
What is the most important word/phrase/line or lines in this film?
Have you changed any ideas you used to have on this subject?
Week 3: [6/12 – 6/16] Video: The History of Islam in Africa by Salaymun Nyang ( You Tube)
David Robinson, Muslim Societies in African History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Chapter 6; “Western Views of Islam and Africa,” pp. 74-88.
Ivan Van Sertima, ed., The Golden Age of the Moors (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1992), Part One: “Race and Origin of the Moors,” pp 1-92; and Part Two: “Moorish Contributions to European Civilization.,” pp 151-181. BB
Video: The Ancient High Science and the Golden Age of the Moor! by Ivan Van Sertima (YouTube)
Video: When the Moors Ruled in Europe, PBS Documentary (You Tube)
Muslim Identity and the Slave Trade
David Robinson, Muslim Societies in African History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Part II: General Themes: Chapter 5: “Muslim Identity and the Slave Trades,” pp. 60-73.
Ronald Segal, Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001),
Chapter Four: “The Practice of Slavery,” pp. 35-66.
Video: “The Legacy of Arab Islam in Africa”- An Interview with John Azumah, the author. (You Tube)
The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade Africans Enslaved in the Muslim World
Ronald Segal, Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001),
Chapter Six: “Into Black Africa,” pp. 89-103.
Ronald Segal, Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001), Chapter Twelve, “Survivals of Slavery,” pp. 199-224
Video: Mauritania: Slavery’s Last Stronghold, CNN Documentary. (You Tube)
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