Lecture and Seminar Programme
1. Lectures and seminars are held weekly, apart from in Reading Weeks or when they fall on UK bank holidays.
2.Please note that there will be a weekly mini lecture (30 minutes) that will focus on core issues, to ensure that you all have the same starting point in the seminar discussion.
2. Details of the time and location of seminars can be found on Tabula.
Week |
Short/Mini- Lecture topics |
Seminar topics |
|
| TERM 1: SOCIAL WORLDS, EVERYDAY LIFE, COLONIAL ANXIETIES | |||
| Term 1 | 1 |
No lecture |
No seminar |
| 2 |
Introduction: Themes |
Writing African History | |
| 3 | History from below | A history of the Excluded, A history of Everyday life | |
| 4 | Slavery, Abolition and Imperialism | The Aftermath of Slavery | |
| 5 | Colonialism: The State and the Economy | Colonialism in Urban Spaces; Race and Ethnicity | |
| 6 | Reading Week (No Lecture) | Reading Week(No Seminar) | |
| 7 | Medicine and Empire | Witches and medicine men: Health, Healing and Christianity | |
| 8 | Gender, Sex and the Empire | Sex, Reproduction and Colonial Anxieties | |
| 9 | The Print media and African agency | Newspapers and Literary life | |
| 10 | Migration, Ethnicity and the Politics of Morality in Post War II Africa | Ethnicity and the Crisis of Masculinity | |
| TERM 2: PROTEST AND DISSENT IN COLONIAL AND POST COLONIAL AFRICA | |||
|
Term 2: |
11 | Resistance, Protest and Dissent in Colonial Africa | Youth, Women Radical protest in Colonial Africa |
| 12 |
Colonial development, Trade Unionism and Nationalism |
Trade unionism and Political parties | |
| 13 | African intellectuals, Literature and History | African intellectuals, writers and the State | |
| 14 | Sports, Leisure and Politics | Football, Leisure and Nationalism | |
| 15 | Love in Africa | Love, and Sex in Africa | |
| 16 | Reading Week (No Lecture) | Reading Week (No Seminar) | |
| 17 | Nation building and Cultural politics in post-colonial Africa | Minigirls, Dandies and the Politics of morality | |
| 18 | Student Activism | Student Radical Politics in Independent Africa | |
| 19 | Gender and the Law | Women, Gender and the law in Independent Africa | |
| 20 | Moral entrepreneurs and Non-conforming Sexuality | Homosexuality and Human rights in contemporary Africa | |
| TERM 3: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND GLOBAL ENTANGLEMENTS | |||
| Term 3 | 21 | SAPs, Democracy and Authoritarianism | Confronting power; Popular protest, Everyday forms of Resistance |
| 22 | Rethinking Ethnicity | Ethnicity Inc: The Commodification of ethnicity | |
| 23 | No Lecture/Bank Holiday | No Seminar/Bank Holiday | |
| 24 | Africa Since 1994 | Foreign Aid and NGOs | |
| 25 | No lecture | No seminar | |