Welcome - BLACK STUDIES: A GLOBAL ODYSSEY TYPR 1650   BLACK STUDIES: A GLOBAL ODYSSEY
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course focuses on the history of Africa and the emergence of the African Diaspora, interweaving aspects of the African Nova Scotia experience. It provides an overview of African history and the African Diaspora and the integral contribution of African peoples to world history. Africa cannot be treated as a monolithic or homogeneous entity; it is a vast continent with a multiplicity of nationalities, languages and cultures. African history is, thus, a correspondingly vast terrain. The Arab and European conquest of Africa make this situation even more complicated. Indeed, this is somewhat reflected in the different historical trajectories and uneven development of North Africa and what has been termed Sub-Saharan Africa. Generalizing about African history is made much more complex because of these and other issues/challenges. Since comprehensive and detailed coverage of this vast terrain is impossible, the focus will be on selected topics encompassing a survey of pre-colonial Africa up to the Atlantic Slave, colonialism and twentieth century independence and national liberation movements. A particular area of emphasis will be the immediate era of the post-Trans-Atlantic slave trade. As the Trans-Atlantic slave trade ended, various European powers vied for control of Africa’s territories and resources, which had a profound and lasting impact on Africans. How did this happen? Why did this happen? How did Africans experience this process? How is the Africa of the 20th and 21st centuries a result of what unfolded in the 19th century?
FORMAT: Lecture
RESTRICTIONS: THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED TO STUDENTS IN THE TRANSITION YEAR PROGRAM
EXCLUSIONS: TYPR 0009.00, HIST 2280.03, CANA 2280.03
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