HISTORY OF AFRICA
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: AGATA DANIELA MELFAExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to provide students with a general framework of African modern history and tools useful to apprehend conflicts in the post-colonial and global Africa.
Course Structure
Lectures will take place with the support of visual and documentary material.
Required Prerequisites
Basic historical and geographical knowledge are required.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsary.
Detailed Course Content
The course moves from the nineteenth-century major changes occurred in Africa (the shift from slave trade to legitimate commerce, Islamic revival and jihad, State modernisation) to colonialism, namely causes and phases of expansion, military campaigns and diplomatic agreements, administrative and economic systems, colonial society. Then the processes of decolonisation, nation-State building and conflicts of the post-colonial and global eras are investigated. A final workshop focuses more specifically on the Great Lakes region.
Textbook Information
G.P. Calchi Novati, P. Valsecchi, Africa. La storia ritrovata, Carocci, Roma 2016 (1a ed. 2005), pp. 143-378.
G. Macola, Una storia violenta. Potere e conflitti nel bacino del Congo (XVIII-XXI secolo), Viella, Roma 2021.
For historical-geographical maps:
M. Kwamena-Poh, J. Tosh, R. Waller, M. Tidy, Atlante storico dell’Africa, SEI, Torino 1989.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G.P. Calchi Novati, P. Valsecchi | Africa. La storia ritrovata | Carocci | 2016 | 9788843079414 |
| G. Macola | Una storia violenta. Potere e conflitti nel bacino del Congo (XVIII-XXI secolo) | Viella | 2021 | 9788833137728 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
An oral exam covering the course topics is scheduled at the end of course.
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