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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2004
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HIST 232 001 (CRN: 20330)
THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA
Long Title:
Department: History
Instructor: Odhiambo, Atieno S.
Meeting: 10:50AM - 12:05PM TR (12-JAN-2004 - 8-MAY-2004)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 500
Section Enrolled: 17
Enrollment data as of: 15-JUN-2024 5:47PM
Description: THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA
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Survey of the transformation of Africa from the late 19th century to the present. Includes Europe and Africa in the 19th century (e.g., the partition of Africa and the colonial state), economic change in the 20th century (e.g., plantation and peasant agriculture, mining and industrialization, wage and migrant labor, African capitalism, rural differentiation, and the roots of hunger and poverty), social change in the 20th century (e.g., ethnic identity, emergence of the elites, and changes in cultural policies regarding language, leisure, the roles of women, religion, law and order, medicine and healing, and urbanization), political developments (e.g., ethnic unions, political parties, and decolonization), and Africa since independence.