History of Africa

Catalog description

This introductory survey of African history broadens students knowledge of African history, politics, peoples, culture, geography, religions, and kingdoms from the dawn of civilization through the middle of the Nineteenth century. Focus is on African historical geography and regional development, Ancient kingdoms, Africa's position within the religious revolutions of the Middle Ages, African in the golden age of war capitalism, and the height of the trans Atlantic slave trade, thus leaving Africa primed for colonial settlement.