TYPR 1650

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.