{"id":3022,"date":"2019-08-06T09:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2019-08-06T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:45:34","slug":"youth-culture-and-activism-in-colonial-and-postcolonial-urban-africa-1945-to-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/2019\/08\/06\/youth-culture-and-activism-in-colonial-and-postcolonial-urban-africa-1945-to-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Culture and Activism in Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Africa, 1945 to 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Ismail Rashid and Oona Maloney ’22, History Department<\/em><\/p>\n

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This summer I worked with\u00a0Professor Rashid on a Ford Scholars Project on Youth Culture and Black Student activism in the United States and South Africa. The project was split into two components over the course of 8 weeks; for the first 5 weeks, Professor Rashid and I expanded on AFRS 289, an existing\u00a06 week seminar, into a 12 week course. For the second part of the project, I traveled to the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. to begin research on an article that Professor Rashid and I will write on I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson, a Sierra Leonean Pan-Africanist, journalist, and unionist.<\/p>\n

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Reading one of the primary readings for AFRS 289 in the Library<\/p><\/div>\n

Before Professor Rashid left, we brainstormed weekly topics for the class syllabus and established the student movements that would be studied in class. I helped by reviewing the three primary readings used in the course and sorting out the chapters that students did and did not have to read. I also created weekly folders containing articles that I found and made PowerPoints for each weekly lesson. Professor Rashid spent most of the summer project traveling in Africa, so I kept in contact with him while he was away through weekly WhatsApp calls.<\/p>\n

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After completing the first part of the project, I started the preliminary for Professor Rashid’s I.T.A. Wallace Johnson article.\u00a0I traveled to Washington D.C. and stayed for a week to do research at the Library of Congress. At the LOC, I primarily worked in the Madison Building where I looked through 8 boxes of microfilm of three different Sierra Leonean newspapers from the early 1900s to see if there was news about Wallace-Johnson and his political activities. In the future, I will continue to work with Professor Rashid throughout the year on Wallace\u00a0Johnson research and article writing.<\/p>\n

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The boxes of microfilm that I sorted through<\/p><\/div>\n

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A microfilm of an article from the Sierra Leonean newspaper the Sierra Leone Daily Mail<\/p><\/div>\n

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