Week 1

Review of previous class discussion : European Scramble and African Resistance. Map Quiz: The Scramble for Africa. Read: Shillington, History of Africa, chapters 21-22; “Zulu Eyewitness Accounts”.

from Francis E. Colenso, History of the Zulu Wars and its Origin (London: Chapman & Hall, 1880). Film &    Discussion: Day of the Zulu [on the Anglo-Zulu battle of Isandlwana in 1879]. Book by Woods, Steve Biko: Cry Freedom. 

Week 2

Colonial Rule,  “Traditional” Societies, and Missionaries in Africa

Shillington, History of Africa, chapters 23-24; Wariboko, “I Really Cannot Make Africa my

Home” [OpenLab]. Book discussion and film / video summary. Aryeetey – Attoh, Ch. 5.

Week 3

Gender, Islam, and Colonialism

Alapo, Culture and Leadership, Ch. 2. Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions. Book discussion and video summary on gender, Islam and Colonialism. Aryeetey – Attoh et al, Ch.12. Ba, So Long A Letter. Book discussion and video summary [OpenLab].

Week 4 (Includes spring break )

Achebe, Things Fall Apart book discussion and film. Both original and remake of the movie are posted on BB course material page.

Week 5

Post-Independent Africa.

Shillington, History of Africa, chapters 27 and 28; Kwame Nkrumah, “Towards African

Unity” and “Continental Government for Africa” in Africa Must Unite (1963) [OpenLab]. Alapo, Culture and Leadership, Ch. 5. Aryeetey – Attoh, Ch. 6.

Week 6

Post-Independent Africa and Modernity: The African Union / Regional Integration: Politics and Economy.

Shillington, History of Africa, chapter 29. Alapo, Culture and Leadership, Ch. 7.

Week 7

History and Modernity in the Africa

Stephen Ellis, “Writing histories of Contemporary Africa”; Kwame Gyekye, “Epilogue: Which Modernity? Whose Tradition?” in Tradition and Modernity… (1997) [OpenLab]. Alapo, Culture and Leadership, Ch. 9. Fannon, Wretched of the Earth.

Week 8 (last day of classes )

Looking within and ahead: A Continent and its Peoples

Shillington, History of Africa, chapter 30; Emmanuel Akyeampong, “Africans in the

Diaspora: The Diaspora and Africa” [OpenLab]. A class simulation on 1619 – 2019: 400 Years later.

Final Exam: FINAL PPT Presentation and Research 8 pages (not more than 10 pages Paper. You will summarize your research paper and then present a PPT on the last week of class “simulation” on Africa and the African Diaspora:1619 – 2019: 400 Years later TBA.