Lecture and Seminar Programme
Lectures and seminars are held weekly, apart from in Reading Weeks.
Lectures will be held on Mondays from 10-11am in the following locations: Term 1 Weeks 1-5 - L5; Term 1 Weeks 7-10 - MS.05; Term 2 & Term 3 - PLT.
Details of the time and location of seminars can be found on Tabula.
Week |
Lecture |
Seminar |
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Term 1 | 1 |
Chronology and Themes |
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2 | Wealth in Women | ||
3 | |||
4 |
Jihad in the West African Savannah |
Revolutions in West Africa |
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5 |
Social and Political Change in C19th Southern Africa |
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6 | Reading week | ||
7 | Palm Oil and Peanuts | ||
8 |
The 'Scramble' for Africa |
Resisting Colonialism |
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9 | The Colonial State and Ethnicity | The 'Invention' of Ethnicity |
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10 |
Colonialism and the 'Civilising Mission' |
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Christmas Vacation | |||
Term 2 | 1 | Peasants or Proletarians? 1890s-1940s | City Life |
2 | The New Colonialism, 1945-1960 | Gender and Colonialism |
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3 |
The Rise of African Nationalism, 1940s-1960s |
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4 | South Africa, 1890-1960 | ||
5 | |||
6 | Reading week | ||
7 | Soldiers and the State, 1960-1980 | Military Coups | |
8 | The ANC and the End of Apartheid, 1960-1994 | The Rise and Fall of Apartheid | |
9 |
From Debt to Democratization, 1980-2000 |
Democratization |
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10 | Film Screening and Discussion | ||
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 | No lecture | No seminar | |
4 | No lecture | No seminar |