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HIS 265 Modern Africa

This course surveys triumphs and tragedies in the development of modern Africa's different political systems since the Conference of Berlin (1884-1885). Topics will include imperialism, peasant resistance, systems of unfree labor, export economies, gender and reproduction, decolonization, Pan-Africanism, and the persistence of neo-colonialism. Fulfills diversity requirement. Spring (C9)

Credits

3