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1. Course introduction |
Africa and the Cold War - Introduction |
| Term 1 |
2. Lecture Slides |
From Berlin to Berlin: the division of Africa, the division of the world |
| 3. Lecture Slides |
The rise of African nationalism |
| 4. Lecture Slides |
The Cold War dimensions of decolonisation |
| 5. Lecture Slides |
Searching for alternatives: Bandung, pan-Africanism, and non-alignment |
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Reading Week |
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Crisis in Congo, 1959-65 |
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Revolution in Zanzibar, 1964 |
| 9. |
The Other Cold War: the Sino-Soviet rivalry |
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10. |
Capitalism, Socialism or African Socialism? Struggles over Economic Growth |
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Christmas Vacation |
| Term 2 |
11. |
Educating Africa: students in the Eastern Bloc |
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12. |
The end of the dream: coups, dictators, and military rule |
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Superpower rivalry and revolution in the Horn of Africa |
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Proxy war? The Ethiopia-Somalia conflict, 1977-78 |
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A luta continua! Liberating southern Africa |
| 16. |
Reading Week |
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Defending white minority rule |
| 18. |
Cuba, South Africa, and the struggle for Angola, 1974-89 |
| 19. |
The Cold War and the end of Apartheid |
| 20. |
New Dawns? Africa after the Cold War |
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Easter Vacation |
| 21. |
Looking back: themes, perspectives, periodisations [Revision session] |
