COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1. Regular class attendance and participation; alert yourselves to news from Africa.
   
   
2. Obtain, read, and be ready to discuss in class the following required textbooks:
   
   
   1. Global Studies, Africa.
      A compact reference work useful for this course.
      
      
   2. Basil Davidson, Modern Africa.
      A short narrative history by a European apologist.
      
      
   3. George Ayittey, Africa in Chaos.
      An angry critical analysis by a native son.
      
      
   4. John Mihevc, The Market Tells Them So.
      Africa as Neocolony.
      
      
   5. Amma Darko, The Housemaid.
      A witty feminist view of contemporary gender relations.
      
      
   6. Alexander Kanengoni, Echoing Silences.
      The problem of violence dramatized.
      
      
3. The Legacy Project. From a list of assigned titles choose, read and prepare for presentation to the class a review of one library book that affords a significant grounding in the historical background to one African situation.
   
   
4. The Web Site Project. In preparation for each class session except the first and the last, hit on at least one web site relevant to contemporary Africa. Be ready to report on the site briefly in class and to pass along the URL to others. (An initial list of starter sites will be supplied.)
   
   
5. Term essay. In consultation with the instructor, adopt an African country. Assume that by election, inheritance or coup you have just become that country's head of state; you will hold that position for ten years. Prepare a written agenda of the five highest priority issues you intend to address during your period of leadership. Explain why you selected those five issues, and what you intend to do about them. As preparation, be ready to discuss a series of key issues in class.
   
   
6. Final exam (oral, pass/fail). Be ready to represent your country's interests at a model meeting of the Organization of African Unity, as we attempt to draft an agenda for continent-wide action over the next decade.

PROPOSED SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES:

1. Session One:
   
   
   1. Introduction
      
   2. Choice of adopted country
      
   3. Video Workshop: (To be determined)
      
      
2. Session Two:
   
   
   1. Website reports
   2. News reports
   3. Discussion of Text: Davidson, History, Part One
   4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Multiculturalism? Language Policy
   5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 1 (or video)
      
      
3. Session Three
   
   
   1. Website reports
   2. News reports
   3. Discussion of Text: Davidson, History, Part Two
   4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Multiculturalism? Religious & Ethnic Policy
   5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 2 (or video)
      
      
4. Session Four
   
   
   1. Website reports
   2. News reports
   3. Discussion of Text: Davidson, History, Part Three
   4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Educational Policy
   5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 3
      
      
5. Session Five
   
   
   1. Website reports
   2. News reports
   3. Discussion of Text: Davidson, History, Part Four
   4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Social Policy & Gender Relations
   5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 4
      
      
6. Session Six
   
   
   1. Website reports
   2. News reports
   3. Discussion of Text: Ayittey, Chaos, Chapters 1, 2 and 3
   4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Military Policy
   5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 5
      
      
7. Session Seven
   
   
   1. Website reports
   2. News reports
   3. Discussion of Text: Ayittey, Chaos, Chapters 4, 5 and 6
   4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Alternative Forms of Government
   5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 6
      
      
8. Session Eight
   
   
   1. Website reports
   2. News reports
   3. Discussion of Text: Ayittey, Chaos, Chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10
   4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Food Policy
   5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 7
      
      
9. Session Nine
   
   
   1. Website reports
   2. News reports
   3. Discussion of Text: Mihevc, The Market Tells Them So
   4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Encourage foreign investment?
   5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 8
      
      
10. Session Ten
    
    
    1. Website reports
    2. News reports
    3. Discussion of Text: Global Studies: Africa, Press clippings
    4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Relations with major world powers
    5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 9
       
       
11. Session Eleven
    
    
    1. Website reports
    2. News reports
    3. Discussion of Text: Darko, The Housemaid
    4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Regional & Continental cooperation
    5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 10
       
       
12. Session Twelve
    
    
    1. Website reports
    2. News reports
    3. Discussion of Text: Kanengoni, Echoing Silences
    4. Discussion of Policy Issue: Concerns unique to your chosen country
    5. Video or Book Report: Heritage project report 11
       
       
13. Session Thirteen
    
    
    1. Final Examination
    2. Party

HERITAGE PROJECT BOOKLIST

• Christopher Ehret, An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400. Charlottesville, VA: U. of Virginia Press, 1998. DT365.65.E37 1998
  
  
• Jan Vansina, Paths in the Rain Forests. Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press, 1990. DT352.65.V36 1990
  
  
• Edna G. Bay, Wives of the Leopard. Charlottesville, VA: U. of Virginia Press, 1998. JQ3376.A91B39 1998
  
  
• Jay Spaulding, The Heroic Age in Sinnar. East Lansing, MI:African Studies Center, Michigan State U., 1985. DT159.6S46567
  
  
• William Y. Adams, Nubia: Corridor to Africa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press, 1977. DT159.6.N83.A32 1984
  
  
• B.G. Trigger, B.J. Kemp, D. O'Conner, A.B. Lloyd, Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1984. DT83.A656 1983
  
  
• Suzanne Preston Blier, The Anatomy of Architecture. NY: Cambridge U. Press, 1987. DT541.45.S65.B57 1987
  
  
• John Thornton, The Kongolese Saint Anthony. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1998. BL2470.K5.T56 1998
  
  
  
  

• Robert Faris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit. NY: Random House, 1983. E29N3748 1983
  
  
• Janheinz Jahn, Muntu. NY: Grove, 1961. DT352.J313
  
  
• Roger Le Tourneau. Fez in the Age of the Marinids. Norman, OK: U. of Oklahoma Press, 1961. DT329.F4L423
  
  
• Derek Nurse and Thomas Spear, The Swahili. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. DT365.45.S93N87 1984
  
  
• G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville. The French at Kilwa Island. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. DT449.K45F7
  
  
• Dennis Hickey and Kenneth C. Wylie, An Enchanting Darkness. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State U. Press, 1993. DT38.7.H5 1993
  
  
• Philip Curtin, ed., Africa Remembered. Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press, 1967. DT471.C8
  
  
• Raymond K. Kent. Early Kingdoms in Madagascar. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. DT469.M31 K45
  
  
• J.D. Omer-Cooper, The Zulu Aftermath: A Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Bantu Africa. Evanston: Northwestern U. Press, 1969. DT731.O4 1966a
  
  
• Richard Elphick, Kraal and Castle: Khoikhoi and the Founding of White South Africa. New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1977. DT764.K45E.41977
  
  
• Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Harmless People. NY:Knopf, 1959. DT764.B8T4
  
  
• S.F. Nadel, A Black Byzantium. London: Oxford U. Press, 1961. DT515.N27
  
  
• Samuel Johnson, The History of the Yorubas. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1921. DT513.J6
  
  
• Melville J. Herskovits, Dahomey: An Ancient African Kingdom. NY: J.J. Augustin, 1938. DT541.H4
  
  
• Leonard Thompson, Survival in Two Worlds: Moshoeshoe of Lesotho, 1786-1870. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. DT787.2.M67T45
  
  
• Mervyn Hiskett, The Sword of Truth. NY: Oxford University Press, 1973. DT515.9.F8.H57
  
  
• Daniel Biebuyck, Lega Culture. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1973. DT650.B5 1973
  
  
• Alan P. Merriam, An African World. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1974. DT650.B367.M47 1974
  
  
• Murray Last, The Sokoto Caliphate. Ibadan: Longman, 1963. DT515.9.F8.L3 1977
  
  
• B.O. Oloruntimehin, The Segu Tukulor Empire. NY: Humanities Press, 1972. DT532.3.O44
  
  
• Georges Balandier, Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo. NY: Pantheon, 1968. DT655.B3613 1968b
  
  
• Colin Turnbull, The Forest People. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1962. DT650.T8 1962
  
  
• M.S.M. Semakula Kiwanuka, A History of Buganda. NY: Africana, 1972. DT434.B8.K49 1972
  
  
• C.S. Nicholls, The Swahili Coast. NY: Africana, 1971. DT432.N5 1971b
  
  
• James McCann, From Poverty to Famine in Northeast Ethiopia. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. DT390.W34.M33 1987
  
  
• Lidwien Kapteijns, Mahdist Faith and Sudanic Tradition. London: KPI International, 1985. DT159.6.D27.K1 1985
  
  
• P.M. Holt, The Mahdist State in the Sudan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. DT108.3.H6 1970
  
  
• Richard Hill, Egypt in the Sudan. London: Oxford U. Press, 1959. DT108.2.H5
  
  
• Peter R. Schmidt, Historical Archaeology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. DT443.S29
  
  
• Steven Feierman, The Shambaa Kingdom. Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press, 1974. DT443.F44 1974
  
  
• Walter Rodney, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970. DT477.R6
  
  
• Patrick McNaughton, The Mande Blacksmiths. Bloomington,IN: Indiana U. Press, 1988. DT551.4.M36.M38 1988
  
  
• Malcolm Ruel, Leopards and Leaders. London: Tavistock, 1969. DT570.R8 1969
  
  
• David Birmingham, Trade and Conflict in Angola. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. DT604.B5
  
  
• John Beattie, The Nyoro State. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. DT434.U29.B32
  
  
• Samwire Rubaraza Karugire, A History of the Kingdom of Nkore. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. DT434.U29.A844
  
  
• John Roscoe, The Baganda. London: Frank Cass, 1965. DT434.U2.R7
  
  
• Lloyd Fallers, Bantu Bureaucracy. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1965. DT434.U242.F3 1965
  
  
• M.G. Smith, The Affairs of Daura. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. DT515.9.D38.S64
  
  
• J.S. Boston, The Igala Kingdom. Ibadan: Oxford U. Press, 1968. DT515.42.B65
  
  
• Alan Ryder, Benin and the Europeans, 1488-1897. NY: Humanities Press, 1969. DT515.9.B37.R9 1969
  
  
• Richard N. Henderson, The King in Every Man. New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1972. DT515.42.H45
  
  
• Anita J. Glaze, Art and Death in a Senufo Village. Bloomington, IN: Indiana U. Press, 1981. DT545.42.655