HISTORY OF COLONIAL AFRICA, 1880-1994

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This course provides a survey of African experiences with colonialism from the period of formal colonialism to the period of decolonization and the end of settler colonialism in Rhodesia and South Africa. The course explores regional experiences across sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa. The course explores questions of resistance and collaboration and the foundations of post-colonial states in the colonial experience. Gender, class, ethnicity and generational differences are explored at the center of this historical survey.