AFST 222

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Introduction to Modern Africa

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Credit: 3 hours.

Interdisciplinary introduction to Africa dealing with basic themes and problems in the politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, and history of Africa.

Same as ANTH 222, PS 242, and SOC 222.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Non-West

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AFST 222 class schedule data for spring 2026
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	56391	Discussion/ Recitation Lecture	A A	1:00PM -1:50PM 1:00PM -1:50PM	F MW	307 Gregory Hall 307 Gregory Hall	Toure, V Toure, V	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: Cultural Studies - Non-West course. Section Info: Modern Africa has sustained the most rapid and profound changes of any continent in the world. Indeed, the African continent saw its social systems, economic structures, political organizations, and religious and cultural practices profoundly transformed by centuries of European imperialism. Yet, Africa is still largely known in the United States through exotic images of the cultural “other,” decimated by civil wars, clan violence, famine, and HIV/AIDS. This course goes beyond these images and stereotypes to place Africa and its people within the shared history of an increasingly global world. The course will utilize an interdisciplinary framework to examine the great civilizations of pre-colonial African societies; the trans-Atlantic slave trade; the impact of colonialism, nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and nationalist and independence movements; social movements and democratization; gender and development; the role of the African Diaspora in Africa's development; and globalization. This course fulfills a general education requirement for Cultural Studies: Non-Western