Lecture and Seminar Programme
1. Lectures and seminars are held weekly, apart from in Reading Weeks or when they fall on UK bank holidays.
2. Details of the time and location of lectures and seminars can be found on Tabula.
3. This module starts in week 2 (All 30 CAT Optional Modules start in week 2)
Week |
Lecture |
Seminar |
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| Term 1 | 1 |
No Lecture |
No Seminar |
| 2 |
Chronology and Themes |
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| 3 |
Slavery and Slaving in Africa |
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| 4 |
State, Society and Trade in C19th East Africa |
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| 5 |
Jihad in the West African Savannah |
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| 6 | Reading week | ||
| 7 |
Social and Political Change in C19th Southern Africa |
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| 8 |
From Slavery to ‘Legitimate Commerce’ |
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| 9 | The 'Scramble' for Africa | ||
| 10 |
The Colonial State and Ethnicity |
The 'Invention' of Ethnicity | |
| Term 2 | 1 |
Colonialism and the 'Civilising Mission' |
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| 2 |
Peasants or Proletarians? 1890s-1940s |
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| 3 |
The New Colonialism, 1945-1960 |
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| 4 |
The Rise of African Nationalism, 1940s-1960s |
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| 5 |
South Africa, 1890-1960 |
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| 6 | Reading week | ||
| 7 |
Challenges of independence 1957-1975 |
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| 8 | Soldiers and the State, 1960-1980 | ||
| 9 |
The ANC and the End of Apartheid, 1960-1994 |
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| 10 | From Debt to Democratization, 1980-2000 | Democratization | |
| Easter Vacation | |||
| Term 3 | 1 | Rwanda and the Great Congo War, 1994-2004 | The Rwandan Genocide |
| 2 | Africa Since 1994 | Africa and the World Since 1994 | |
| 3 | Bank Holiday: No Lecture | Bank Holiday: No Seminar | |
| 4 | TBA: Documentary | TBA | |