HIST 3620

The course will explore the crucial experiences of African societies from the ending of the Atlantic slave trade until the recent past. It will focus on African peoples' interactions with each other and with the expanding forces of global capitalism and European colonialism and on their struggle for political independence. It will also examine Africa's more recent post-colonial experiences of the politics of nation-building and state formation and the struggle for economic development. It will give attention to African agency and to the internal historical dynamics within the continent even as its peoples grappled with the global social, economic, political, and cultural currents that impacted them during this period. [Restriction(s): HIST*3410][Offering(s): Offered in even-numbered years.][Department(s): Department of History]