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Humanities and Social Science

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Seminar

Module Offerings

6114HIST-SEP-MTP

Aims

1. To encourage students to think historically about conflict in post-colonial Africa, paying attention to continuity and change over time 2. To encourage students to construct multi-causal analyses of African conflicts 3. To think about local, national, regional and global dimensions to so-called ‘civil wars’ in Africa

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Wars of decolonization and liberation (Kenya, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe) Secessionist conflicts (Congo, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan)
Module Overview:
This module will encourage you to think historically about conflict in post-colonial Africa, paying attention to continuity and change over time. It will also encourage you to think about local, national, regional and global dimensions to so-called 'civil wars' in Africa.
Additional Information:The global media has frequently interpreted the many conflicts of post-colonial Africa as 'tribal' violence. These crude stereotypes are themselves the products of a deep and continuing history of representations of Africa as the 'primitive other' in western culture. This course takes us beyond the stereotypes to examine in detail the historical, political and economic basis for episodes of mass violence and warfare in Africa from the 1950s onwards. We will draw connections between the local, state level, regional and global factors which have fed into these conflicts. We will use the work of political scientists, anthropologists, economists as well as that of historians, in order to gain comparative and theoretical insight into the causes and character of post-colonial conflict. Our understanding of state and society in post-colonial Africa will be challenged throughout

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