HIST 287 - Modern Africa

2020-2021 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
This course begins roughly with the end of the global slave trade and continues to the present, covering the entire continent of Africa. You will learn about the growing influence of European incursion into the continent and African responses to the political, economic, and social changes colonialism brought. In this course, we will study the history of what nationalism meant for Africans beginning during the two World Wars and ending with the struggle of late twentieth century African nations to govern diverse populations. The process of decolonization in Africa was one of the most important historical transformations of the twentieth century, but the nationalist sentiments behind the long roads to freedom shaped each new country. The scope of the course will include the influence of Pan-Africanism, key African philosophers and political leaders, the Cold War, and the struggles to change the social and economic inequalities in Africa.

Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
Program Attribute: HLAC