- Docente: Irma Taddia
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SPS/13
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0962)
Course contents
The aim of the course is to provide a general knowledge of the main topics of modern African history through the analysis of methodological tools and historiographical debate. The main themes: oral and written sources; methodology and historical research; African politics; Atlantic and Asia slave trade; Islam and African society; Chtistianity and Islam; Colonialism, nationalism and postcolonial society. Seminars will be held for undergraduated and PhD students
Readings/Bibliography
I. Taddia , Autobiografie africane. Il colonialismo nelle memorie orali, F. Angeli, Milano 1996 ( pp. 9-44)
W. Speitkamp, Breve storia dell'Africa, Einaudi, 2010
T. Negash, L'Etiopia entra nel terzo millennio, Aracne, 2009, (chapters 1 and 2)
And one among the following:
K. Pallaver, Un'altra Zanzibar. Schiavitù, colonialismo e urbanizzazione a Tabora (1840-1916), FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2010
B. Nicolini, I. Taddia, Il Corno d'Africa tra medicina, politica e storia, ed. Nova Logos , Aprilia 2011 (4 chapters)
Teaching methods
lessons, seminars, group discussions
Assessment methods
oral exam
Teaching tools
archival films, power point, dvd
Office hours
See the website of Irma Taddia