HIST 6391:Current Themes in African History

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study or permission of chair/director
The course examines current themes in Africa’s socio-political, economic, and cultural history from the earliest times to the end of European colonization. It explores the transformation of African peoples, societies, and cultures from precolonial times to colonization and decolonization. It emphasizes themes such as civilization and empire building, indigenous religion, and the coming of Islam and Christianity. It evaluates the legacies of external contacts, the slave trades, partition, imperialism, and neocolonialism.

This course may be cross-leveled with HIST 8391  or HIST 4391.