Madina Thiam

You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

Describe something you learned from lecture this week that you didn’t know just from doing the readings. Connect something you learned in 209 this week to something you are learning in another of your classes this semester. If Monday and Wednesday assigned readings were from two different texts, make connections between the two. Do they share themes? Forms? Tone? Historical context? Do you find them equally interesting? Look at the very first paragraph of one of our texts and discuss how the opening lays the groundwork for the rest of the work. Quote specific lines, phrases, or images. Using quotes from a text, persuade someone (friend or foe, your grandma or your senator) to change their mind about something important. Compose a 5 song playlist to accompany an assigned reading from this week, and write a few sentences for each song, explaining your choices. Describe an idea you had in response to the readings/lecture/discussions for our class this week- any idea, about literature, or the world, or yourself. How might you pursue this idea, in your studies or elsewhere? Choose a passage (no more than 10 lines) from the readings this week and rewrite it, changing at least one of the literary aspects such as: person (change from first to third-person or vice versa), tense (change from past to present etc), focalizing character (i.e. write it from a different character's perspective), style (adjectives, diction, description, tone). Then write 2-3 sentences about the effect of your changes. Compose a yelp review to strangers, or a letter to a specific person, or a booktok style video, recommending a novel/poem/play from this week’s reading. Write a letter to someone who has questioned your choice of majoring or minoring in English, explaining why you value what you’re learning. Include quotes / ideas from this week’s readings.

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Interested in recent scholarship on #Mali? Check out this #OA piece by @thiamm.bsky.social, reviewing books by Richard Roberts and the late Moussa Sow: bit.ly/430cvRx

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Photographie des étudiants à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire vers 1900

En 1904, deux savants se rencontrent à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire, un lettré musulman du Borno, al-Hajj Musa et un linguiste amateur allemand, Rudolf Prietze, tous deux en Égypte pour poursuivre leurs études, ils collaboreront pendant dix ans produisant des centaines de pages de textes en kanouri.

A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

I’m in NYC for June so was lucky enough to attend an interesting panel at The People’s Forum this evening for @versobooks.bsky.social’s new series on Southern Questions with Adom Getachew, @thiamm.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, & Adéwálé Májà-Pearce. Lots to think about and even more to read 🔥

Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950, par Madina Thiam Bamako, 1959. Au premier congrès de l’union des femmes de l’ouest africain, des militantes livrent un réquisitoire contre le double joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pourtant un exemple à suivre.

Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950.

Bamako, 1959. Des militantes de la première heure livrent un réquisitoire à la fois contre le joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pourtant un exemple à suivre

Tribune de‪ @thiamm.bsky.social‬ ⤵️

Une conception du panafricanisme et de l'anti-impérialisme bien différente de celle, opportuniste à mon avis, portée par des hommes en armes aujourd'hui.

plus de liens vers des sources et images/sons d'archives dans l'article. glissez dans mes DM si vous n'y avez pas accès.

On a beaucoup à apprendre de cette fenêtre de la fin des années 1950 où les femmes africaines s'organisent politiquement, dans un cadre démocratique et inclusif, malgré les débats et les désaccords.

Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950, par Madina Thiam Bamako, 1959. Au premier congrès de l’union des femmes de l’ouest africain, des militantes livrent un réquisitoire contre le double joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pou...

Dans ce billet pour @liberation.fr je reviens sur une époque où les femmes d'Afrique de l'ouest étaient engagées localement et à l'international

Et sur un événement fondateur: le congrès de l'Union des Femmes de l'Ouest Africain, juillet 1959, Bamako

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Event flyer The peoples forum 320 West 37th Street New York, NY 10018 May 29 @7pm Verso Books Southern Questions Series Launch Featurng Adom Getachew, Adéwálé Májà-Pearce, Howard French and Madina Thiam

NYC, join us tomorrow for the launch of Verso's Southern Question series

we'll discuss the (re)release of Andrée Blouin's My Country, Africa, and Adéwálé Májà-Pearce's This Fiction Called Nigeria

7pm at The People's Forum, more info + tickets here: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/s...

what the 😳😳🤦🏿‍♀️ !?? oh my God yes I meant Kalidou indeed

Trailer Yambo Ouologuem, Bound to Violence This is "Trailer Yambo Ouologuem, Bound to Violence" by ELEVER LA VOIX FILMS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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New York! Join us for a screening of Yambo Ouologuem, Bound to Violence

Afterwards I'll be in conversation with director Kalidou Sy

🗓️Monday May 26
📍Maysles Documentary Center
🕜doors open 6pm

Free with registration. Grab your seat, we don't have many left!

RSVP🔗https://pp.events/b2QYQNBm

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Hi!!

Just back from Morocco and if you guys are in Casablanca, please visit Siniya research.

It's a community center, archive, and translation space taking its partial inspo (and name) from Nas El Ghiwane, revisiting panafrican histories that almost were, and doing much more.

Last night was 10/10 the highlight of my time at NYU so far. Long live Onions, cheers to the colleague who said we ride until dawn, and s/o to RK aka the best to ever do it (iykyk). Free Palestine!!🍉

sis😂😭