- Modern Africa

Catalog description

This course considers broad historical developments in Sub-Saharan Africa from early pre-colonial civilizations through the colonial era to the present. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the historical legacy of interaction between Sub-Saharan Africa and the West in trade including the slave trade, ideas, and culture, the period of European partition and conquest, African resistance to colonialism, decolonization struggles, challenges to early independent governance, and current developmental and social policy issues facing African societies in the global arena, particularly Africa’s emerging relationship with the United States and China.