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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.