• Lectures are held weekly on Wednesday in the Ramphele Building, R0.12 between 10.00 and 11.00am.
• Seminars are held fortnightly in even-numbered weeks of term. Seminar groups will be allocated during the introductory meeting held at the end of Week 1.
  • Group 1 will meet on Tuesday between 2.00 and 3.30pm in my office in the Humanities building, room 235
  • Group 2 will meet on Tuesday between 4.00 and 5.30pm in the Social Studies building, room C1.11/15
  • Group 3 will meet on Friday between 10.00 and 11.30am in the Humanities building, room HI_H4.04

   

 

Autumn Term

Week No.	Lectures	Seminar Reading & Discussion Topic
1	INTRODUCTORY MEETING
2	Introduction	Introduction
3	Swahili coastal communities
4	Slavery in the 19th century	Eastern Africa before colonialism
5	State and society in the 19th century
6	Reading Week	Reading Week
7	The colonial conquest
8	Ecological crisis	Scramble or conquest?
9	Conflict and accommodation
10	World War I	Ethnicity

 

Spring Term

 

Week No.	Lectures	Seminar Reading & Discussion Topic
1	The civilising mission?
2	Customary law, the invention of tradition and ethnicity	The civilising mission?
3	Settler colonialism
4	The colonial city	Race, settlers and Empire
5	Colonialism and the countryside
6	Reading Week	Reading Week
7	World War II
8	Second colonial occupation and post-war development	Visit to Modern Records Centre
9	Tanganyika's peaceful transition
10	Mau Mau	Late-colonialism and its legacies

Summer Term

 

Week No.	Lectures	Seminar Reading & discussion topic
1	Race, ethnicity and rebellion in Rwanda & Zanzibar
2	African socialism and neo-colonialism	Nationalism
3	One-party states and military rule
4	The withering state	Development