Lecture and Seminar Programme

Lectures and seminars are held weekly, apart from in Reading Weeks or when they fall on UK bank holidays.

Details of the time and location of lectures and seminars can be found on Tabula.

	Week	Lecture	Seminar
Term 1	1	Introduction
	2	Chronology and Themes	Writing African History
	3	Slavery and Slaving in Africa	Gender and Slavery
	4	State, Society and Trade in C19th East Africa	Authority and Identity in East Africa
	5	Jihad in the West African Savannah	Revolutions in West Africa
	6	Reading week
	7	Social and Political Change in C19th Southern Africa	The Mfecane Debate
	8	From Slavery to ‘Legitimate Commerce’ in West Africa	Palm Oil and Peanuts
	9	The 'Scramble' for Africa	Resisting Colonialism
	10	The Colonial State and Ethnicity	The 'Invention' of Ethnicity

Term 2	1	Colonialism and the 'Civilising Mission'	Christian Missions
	2	Peasants or Proletarians? 1890s-1940s	Colonialism in the City
	3	The New Colonialism, 1945-1960	Gender and Colonialism
	4	The Rise of African Nationalism, 1940s-1960s	Nationalism and Liberation
	5	South Africa, 1890-1960	Afrikanerdom and Segregation
	6	Reading week
	7	Politics and Parties after Independence, 1957-1975	African Socialism
	8	Soldiers and the State, 1960-1980	Military Coups
	9	The ANC and the End of Apartheid, 1960-1994	Fighting Apartheid
	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	No lecture	No seminar
	3	Africa Since 1994	Africa and the World Since 1994
	4	No lecture	No seminar