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editHello, Awilli94, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:10, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
Proposal for WikiArticles
editProposals My desired topic for an article is to contribute to the stub on The Black Hermit, by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. The story’s plot is of a young African man who leaves his tribe in pursuit of higher education. Once left, he is tasked with the decision of returning to his native land or staying. This is very important in the context of the course, as it deals with the transfer of knowledge and information. Dissemination of information is crucial to every social movement; a movement can live or die by whom the organization relies on for its knowledge and information. Therefore, it’s important to
My first alternative is to contribute to the article on Chaka, a work by Thomas Mofolo. The story is a story -as much as it is psychological assessment- of the Ancient African king Shaka Khan. An expansion on this work would give insight on and a relevant contextual groundwork to analyzing modern and contemporary leaders. More specifically, it would give a point of reference when dealing with how the relationship between leadership and moral character correlates.
My second alternative is to create an article on the novel Tales of Our Motherland by Ernest Emenyonu. The work is comprised of 8 short stories that reflect the political climate in Africa. It touches on phenomena like androcentrism and the intra-sex conflict over power and traditionalism and progressivism that exists within African communities. Such phenomena are more than present in today’s society and, with a contextual analysis of their society, provide a medium for cross-examination between African American and African communities, that may give additional insight.
Your Second alternative sounds like a great and interesting choice. I like the idea because it seems like it would more closely approach more of the class-based topics as well as branch out a little further on subjects surrounding our discussions.KyraWilson (talk) 05:53, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Your first choice sounds really interesting. I agree that it is an important topic and should be expanded more. Your alternatives are also great topics and I like how you used topics that were related to the course but are also from a different kind of context that we discuss in class.Tajonnm (talk) 16:33, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Comments from Dr. O
editThe structure you have set up looks good. Be sure to include at least one citation in your leader and don't forget about those last training modules Mosterbur (talk) 13:45, 24 April 2017 (UTC)Mosterbur