History 258 - MODERN AFRCA SINCE 1800

This course provides an introductory survey of African history since 1800. In doing so, the course offers students a framework for understanding the political, social, and economic history of Modern Africa by foregrounding the strategies African peoples employed as they made sense of, accommodated themselves to, and confronted their changing historical landscapes. Key subjects include Islam and Jihad in West Africa; the East African plantation economy; European expansion in South Africa; the rise of "Legitimate Commerce"; the Scramble for Africa and European colonialism on the continent; decolonization and African liberation movements; and life in an independent Africa.