Weekly Readings

African History

This is a guide to the weekly readings and is SUBJECT TO CHANGE and most likely will (although due dates and exams will remain as listed). This list does not include readings from other sources that will be assigned in GA View - All readings are from Shillington, if no name assigned

Week 1 (Our weeks run Thursday to Thursday)
Aug 18th-25th  You need to have read the required material below and in GA View and posted to the discussion by by August 25th.
Introduction to Africa
Pre-colonial Africa
Begin reading Things Fall Apart
Please read http://www.africaaction.org/talking-about-tribe.html for discussion

Chapter 6 Trans-Saharan Trade and the Kingdom of Ancient Ghana
Trans-Saharan Trade
Ancient Kingdom of Ghana
Spread of Islam

Week 2 Aug 25th - Sept 1st
Chapter 7  Islam and Sudanic states of West Africa
http://public.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/leo_africanus.html

Week 3 Sept 1st - Sept 8th
View Keita: The Heritage of the Griot
Handout on film http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0050

Chapter 12 The Atlantic Slave Trade sixteen to eighteenth century
The Slave Trade, the European Impact on Africa

Week 4 Sept 8-15th
Chapter 12 cont, and
Chapter 13 West African States

Week 5 Sept 15th-22th
PAPER TOPIC DUE Sept 15th please e-mail in GA View -- if you are not sure please e-mail so we can discuss
Chapter 16 West Africa in the Nineteenth Century and the ending of the Slave Trade
Islamic Jihads in West African and Islamic States

Chapter 20 Prelude to Empire
Laying the ground work for colonization
Adu Boahen Chapter 1

Week 6 Sept 22nd - 29th
Chapter 21 The European “Scramble” Colonial Conquest  and African Resistance
European Conquest of Africa
Chapter 18 Pre-Industrial southern Africa in the Nineteenth Century
Adu Boahen  Chapter 2

Week 7 Sept 29th - Oct 6th
Chapter 22 Industrialization, Colonial Conquest and African Resistance in south-central and southern Africa
 

MIDTERM EXAM  OCTOBER 6th

Study Guide

LAST DAY TO DROP  Friday, October 7th