Description: AFRICA TO 1884
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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.
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Instructor(s): Odhiambo