Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: AFRICA TO 1884

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the changing historiography of Africa. Includes the emergence of the Bantu; early Christianity and Islam; trans-Saharan trade; Medieval Sudanic empires; statelessness and state formation; Portugal in Africa; the slave trade; the Mfecane; the Sudanic jihads; long-distance trade; and African-European relations in the 19th century.