AP/HIST 2750 6.00

African History, From 1800 To The Present

 This is an introductory history of the entire African continent from circa 1800 to the present. The course examines the abolition of the slave trade and slavery, the development of legitimate commerce, pre-colonial production, the partition of Africa, the entrenchment of colonial rule, African reactions to European imperialism, the political economy of colonialism, the rise of nationalism, socio-economic change during the colonial period, the decolonization of the continent, and the post-independence search for new socio-economic structures.