Contemporary Africa

Catalog description

This course focuses on selected themes and case studies in contemporary African affairs from 1960 when most African countries gained their independence to the present. Themes to be examined include the nature of freedom which African countries regained from their European colonizers; ethnicity and the task of nation-building; and social, economic and political changes since independence. This course develops advanced research and writing skills by the creation of a project based on the critical analysis of primary and secondary sources. Credit allowed only for one of HIST 4037 , ETHN 4037.