History 234 - COLQ: GLOBAL AFRICA

Frustrated by historical models focused upon the modern nation-state, historians have increasingly sought to explore the complex networks of identities, loyalties, and attachments forged by diverse groups of peoples in their attempts to transcend the real and metaphoric boundaries of the territorial nation-state. This course interrogates how historians and other scholars have engaged the "transnational" in Africa through such concepts as "diaspora," "transnationalism," and "globalization." In doing so, the class queries how African peoples living inside and outside the continent shaped (and reshaped) their views of themselves and communities over seemingly vast distances in time and space.