Courses

Africa, Empire and the Twentieth Century World

This undergraduate seminar explores African political thought and action during the first half of the twentieth century.  It brings together readings from a range of disciplines, including history, colonial and post-colonial studies, women's studies, and literary studies as well as primary documents and novels to explore African intellectuals' engagement with European imperialism and international politics, and their positioning of Africa within the twentieth century world.  Students will learn about African participation in a diversity of social and political movements, including pan-Africanism, communism, feminism, black internationalism, and anti-imperialism.   
They will also become familiar with current debates and theoretical developments in African, imperial, transnational, international and global history.  Coursework in African history is helpful, but not required.