Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Sciences Po - Reims campus
Course Title:
FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT THROUGH THE HISTORY OF AFRICA, FROM THE 8TH CENTURY TO INDEPENDENCE
Course Number:
AHUM 17F00
Course Description:
This course offers an introduction to the history of Africa south of the Sahara, while examining the possible echoes of old events in contemporary issues. Knowledge of the past (with examples taken from the vast continental space and over the long term) provides tools for understanding certain elements of the present, even if we must be careful not to fall into a utilitarian and teleological vision of the history. It will thus be a question of going back and forth between past and present, inventions, instrumentalisation, rebirths, traces.
Various sources will be mobilized to highlight the process of writing history over the decades. : archeology, written testimonies, objects, archives, orality
The course will be done in conjunction with the reading conferences. Plan: Plan 1-What Africa? What a story ? 2-Sources, methods and contemporary issues 3-Forms and structures of politics: the Sudanese empire (IX-XVI century) 4-The great empires and their
Language:
French
Approved Equivalent:
HIST L387, INTS 299
Attachment Files:
AHUM 17F00.pdf
