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
Term 1	1	Chronology and Themes Lecture Slides	Writing African History
	2	Slavery and Slaving in Africa Lecture Slides	Wealth in Women
	3	State, Society and Trade in C19th East Africa Lecture Slides	Authority and Identity in East Africa
	4	Jihad in the West African Savannah Lecture Slides	Revolutions in West Africa
	5	Social and Political Change in C19th Southern Africa Lecture Slides	The Mfecane Debate
	6	Reading week
	7	From Slavery to ‘Legitimate Commerce’ in West Africa Lecture Slides	Palm Oil and Peanuts
	8	The 'Scramble' for Africa Lecture Slides	Resisting Colonialism
	9	The Colonial State and Ethnicity	The 'Invention' of Ethnicity
	10	Colonialism and the 'Civilising Mission'	Christian Missions
Christmas Vacation
Term 2	1	Peasants or Proletarians? 1890s-1940s	City Life
	2	The New Colonialism, 1945-1960	Gender and Colonialism
	3	The Rise of African Nationalism, 1940s-1960s	Nationalism and Liberation
	4	South Africa, 1890-1960	Afrikanerdom and Segregation
	5	Politics and Parties after Independence, 1957-1975	African Socialism
	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
	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