HISTORY 345: WEST AFRICA SINCE 1800 WINTER 2000
Professor
Joe Lunn,
Department of Social Sciences (History)
Room: 2119 CX Telephone:
436-9184; Home: (734) 741-4465
Office Hours: T/Th: 1:30-2:30, 5:00-6:00 or by appointment
TEXT: Michael Crowder, West Africa: An Introduction to its History. Longman.
READINGS:
Maryse Condé, Segu. Penguin.
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Fawcett
Ousmane Sembene, God's Bits of Wood. Heinemann.
Wole Soyinka, The Open Sore of a Continent. Oxford.
FILMS: Guimba
the Tyrant, Mister Jonson, Le Franc
SCHEDULE:
Week
Topics
Text Chapters
Readings/Film
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1/6 |
Introduction:
The Study of African History |
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1/13 |
The
Western Sudan in the Nineteenth Century |
1-5 |
Condé
(1 & 2) |
|
1/20 |
The
Western Sudan (cont.) |
8-9 |
Guimba
the Tyrant |
|
1/27 |
Islamic
Revolutions |
10-11,
16 |
Condé
(3) |
|
2/3 |
The
Coastal States in the Nineteenth Century |
6,
12-14 |
Condé
(4 & 5) |
|
2/10 |
West
Africa and the European Presence |
15,
17 |
Achebe |
|
2/17 |
The
European Conquest |
18 |
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|
2/24 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION: IN CLASS |
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3/2 |
Colonial Rule |
19-20 |
Mister
Jonson |
|
3/9 |
SPRING BREAK (no class) |
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3/16 |
Colonial Rule (cont.) |
21 |
Sembene |
|
3/23 |
Independence Reclaimed |
22-24 |
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|
3/30 |
West Africa Since Independence |
25 |
Soyinka |
|
4/6 |
The Future of West Africa |
|
Le
Franc |
|
4/6-4/13 |
TAKE HOME FINAL EXAMINATION:
Distributed April 6; due in my mailbox or office by April 13 at
6:00 p.m. |
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