Africana Studies 140 - When People Met Power

Fall
2019
01
4.00
Holly Hanson
MW 09:30AM-10:45AM
Mount Holyoke College
108188
Skinner Hall 212
hhanson@mtholyoke.edu
108166,108188
This course traces the long history of political accountability in Africa. How did Africans wrest good governance from their leaders? How did they understand civic virtue and social responsibility? What principles of political logic did kingdoms share with societies without kings and royal women? How did gender contribute to structures of authority? What sources and methods enable us to productively approach a period of time distant from our own?
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