HIST 112
Fall 2026 All Classes
Credit: 3 hours.
Survey of Africa's history from 1800 to the present day. Topics include the Atlantic slave trade, agricultural exchange, growth of Christianity, origins and effects of nineteenth-century European expansion culminating in the "Scramble for Africa," the transformations wrought by European colonial rule during the twentieth century, anticolonial nationalism, decolonization, and postcolonial political, economic, social, and cultural developments.
Same as AFST 112.
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in
Fall 2022 for: