Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: KENYA IN MODERN HISTORY ***** Study of Kenya's transformation from tribal societies to a modern state. Includes a survey of migrations and settlement, the emergence of pre-colonial societies, their underlying cultural unities, and pre-capitalist socio-economic formations, as well as the British conquest, the colonial state and economy, changes (e.g., educational, religious, social, and cultural), traditions of resistance and collaboration, the invention of tribes, politics (e.g., clan, district, and territorial), Mau Mau, de-colonization and constitutional changes, the post-colonial state, and Kenya toward the end of the 20th century.