- Docente: Irma Taddia
- Credits: 12
- SSD: SPS/13
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Irma Taddia (Modulo 1) Karin Pallaver (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Historical sciences (cod. 0978)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (cod. 0964)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Geography and Territorial Processes (cod. 0971)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Asian and African Languages and Cultures (cod. 0972)
Learning outcomes
With this course the student will acquire a deep knowledge of the main aspects of the modern history of Africa. The student will also understand and work with the sources for the history of Africa through the use of both the classical and of the most recently developed methodological tools of the historical research on Africa. He/she will also become able to discuss autonomously the main issues related to the modern history of the African continent
Course contents
The aim of the course is to provide a specific knowledge of the main themes related to the colonial period and the postcolonial State in Africa. Lessons and seminars focus on :
Colonized Africa; Africa at end of colonial rule; the social , economic and political context of decolonisation; the ideologies of the decolonisation and panafricanism; nationalism and state- building; the crisis of the postcolonial state.
Readings/Bibliography
FOR 6 CFU:
For the oral exam, the students will read:
J. Iliffe, Popoli dell'Africa. Storia di un continente, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2007
T. Negash, L'Etiopia entra nel terzo millennio, Aracne, 2009 (chapter 3)
And choose two texts among the following:
E. Vezzadini, The 1924 Revolution: Hegemony, Resistance and
Nationalism in the Colonial Sudan, Allkopi, University of Bergen
(the book is available on line at
https://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/306)
K. Pallaver, Lungo le piste d'Africa. Carocci, Roma, 2008.
I. Taddia (ed.), Russian ethnographers and the Horn of Africa (20th century), L'Harmattan, Torino-Parigi, 2008.
P. Nugent, Africa since independence, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2004.
F. Cooper, Africa since 1940. The past of the present, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
For 12 CFU the students have to add: B. Nicolini, I. Taddia, Il Corno d'Africa tra medicina, politica e storia, ed. Nova Logos, Aprilia, 2011.
Teaching methods
Seminars and workhops for undergraduates and PhD students
Assessment methods
oral exam
Teaching tools
archival films, literary texts, power point
Office hours
See the website of Irma Taddia
See the website of Karin Pallaver