Lecture and Seminar Programme

Lectures and seminars are held weekly, apart from in Reading Weeks. Details of the lecture time and location and of your seminar time and location can be found on Tabula.

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