Handouts

HIS 2371 01 - History & Cultures of Africa

Legacies of Slavery

Benin & Legacies of the Trade in Slaves

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Syllabus & Assignments

Geography Map Quiz

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Political Map Quiz

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Syllabus

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Aya Assignment

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Week 1

Wainaina-How to Write About Africa

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Tibebu-The Anomaly and Paradox of Africa

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Mazrui-The Re-Invention of Africa

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Week 2

Gilbert & Reynolds-Ch 1 & 4

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Week 3

Davidson-The History of West Africa (selections)

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Thornton-The Development of Commerce between Europeans and Africans

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Early Arab Sources on West Africa

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Week 4

Ibn Battuta in East Africa

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Loimeier-The East African Coast

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Week 5

Meirs & Kopytoff: “African ‘Slavery’ as an Institution of Marginality” Part I

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Meirs & Kopytoff: “African ‘Slavery’ as an Institution of Marginality” Part II

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Meirs & Kopytoff: “African ‘Slavery’ as an Institution of Marginality” Part III

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El Hamel-The Interplay btw Slavery & Race & Color Prejudice

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Week 6

Equiano-Chapter 2

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Falconbridge-An Acct of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa

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Lovejoy-The Impact of the AST in Africa: A review of the Literature

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Rediker: Chs 3 & 4: The Slave Ship

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Week 7

Getz & Ehrisman-The Marriages of Abina Mansah

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Additional Abina Sources

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Week 9

Greene-"Minority Voices: Abolitionism in West Africa"

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The Asante King Questions British Motives in Ending the Slave Trade

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Further Correspondence Relating to the Abolition of Slavery on the Gold Coast

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Lynn-The W. African Palm Oil Trade in the 19th C & the Crisis of Adaptation

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Week 10

Von Trutha-The Fellows Can Just Starve

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Taithe-Losing Their Mind & Their Nation

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Week 11

Ranger-The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa

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Cooper-Colonizing Time

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Whittlesey-British and French Colonial Technique in West Africa

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Week 12

Clark & Worger-South Africa: The Rise & Fall of Apartheid

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Week 13

Lonsdale-Constructing Mau Mau

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Cooper-Possibility & Constraint

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Iliffe-Independent Africa

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Week 14

Cooper-Development & Disappointment

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Bracking-Structural adjustment: why it wasn't necessary & why it did work

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Week 15

Huening-Explaining the Congo Wars

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Baaz & Stern-Making sense of violence: voices of soldiers in the Congo

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Abina Sources (not on syllabus)

Fage: “Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Context of West African History"

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Peabody: "Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World, 1420-1807"

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Akurang-Parry-African Intelligentsia & Abolition in the Gold Coast

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