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

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

3. This module will start in week 2 (30 CAT Optional modules start in Week 2)

	Week	Lecture	Seminar
Term 1	1	No lecture	No seminar
	2	Introduction: Themes	Writing African History
	3	History from below	A history of the Excluded, A history of Everyday life
	4	Slavery, Abolition and Imperialism	The Aftermath of Slavery
	5	Colonialism: The State and the Economy	Colonialism in Urban Spaces; Race and Ethnicity
	6	Reading Week (No Lecture)	Reading Week(No Seminar)
	7	Medicine and Empire	Witches and medicine men: Health, Healing and Christianity
	8	Gender, Sex and the Empire	Sex, Reproduction and Colonial Anxieties
	9	The Print media and African agency	Newspapers and Literary life
	10	Migration, Ethnicity and the Politics of Morality in Post War II Africa	Ethnicity and the Crisis of Masculinity
Term 2:	11	Resistance, Protest and Dissent in Colonial Africa	Youth, Women Radical protest in Colonial Africa
	12	Colonial development, Trade Unionism and Nationalism	Trade unionism and Political parties
	13	African intellectuals, Literature and History	African intellectuals, writers and the State
	14	Sports, Leisure and Politics	Football, Leisure and Nationalism
	15	Love in Africa	Love, and Sex in Africa
	16	Reading Week (No Lecture)	Reading Week (No Seminar)
	17	Nation building and Cultural politics in post-colonial Africa	Minigirls, Dandies and the Politics of morality
	18	Student Activism	Student Radical Politics in Independent Africa
	19	Gender and the Law	Women, Gender and the law in Independent Africa
	20	Moral entrepreneurs and Non-conforming Sexuality	Homosexuality and Human rights in contemporary Africa
Easter Vacation
Term 3	21	SAPs, Democracy and Authoritarianism	Confronting power; Popular protest, Everyday forms of Resistance
	22	Rethinking Ethnicity	Ethnicity Inc: The Commodification of ethnicity
	23	No Lecture/Bank Holiday	No Seminar/Bank Holiday
	24	Africa Since 1994	Foreign Aid and NGOs
	25	No lecture	No seminar