An award-winning and Yale-trained historian reveals Africa in all its complexity, grandeur, tragedy, and resilience so you can understand the events in present-day Africa through their deep historical context.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Finding the "Lost Continent"
- 02: Africa's Many Natural Environments
- 03: A Virtual Tour of the Great Land
- 04: The Cradle of Humankind
- 05: Crops, Cattle, Iron - Taming a Continent
- 06: Kinship and Community - Societies Take Shape
- 07: Like Nothing Else - The Ancient Nile Valley
- 08: Soul and Spirit - Religion in Africa
- 09: Ethiopia - Outpost of Christianity
- 10: West Africa's Golden Age
- 11: The Swahili Commercial World
- 12: Great Zimbabwe and the Cities of the South
- 13: The Atlantic Slave Trade - The Scope
- 14: The Atlantic Slave Trade - The Impact
- 15: South Africa - The Dutch Cape Colony
- 16: South Africa - The Zulu Kingdom
- 17: South Africa - The Frontier and Unification
- 18: South Africa - Diamonds and Gold
- 19: Prelude to the Scramble for Africa
- 20: European Conquest and African Resistance
- 21: Colonial Africa - New Realities
- 22: Colonial Africa - Comparisons and Change
- 23: The Lion Awakens - The Rise of Nationalism
- 24: The Peaceful Paths to Independence
- 25: The Congo - Promise and Pain
- 26: Segregation to Apartheid in South Africa
- 27: The Armed Struggles for Independence
- 28: The First Taste of Freedom
- 29: The Taste Turns Sour
- 30: The World Turns Down - The "Permanent Crisis"
- 31: A New Dawn? The Democratic Revival
- 32: The South African Miracle
- 33: The Unthinkable - The Rwanda Genocide
- 34: The New Plague - HIV/AIDS in Africa
- 35: Zimbabwe - Background to Contemporary Crisis
- 36: Africa Found
Taught by
Kenneth P. Vickery
