Introduction to Global Africa: Major Texts and Methods

4.0 credits · Graduate

This course will introduce graduate students to transnational histories of the African continent. We will be reading at least a monograph per week. We will meet weekly to have robust conversations about the form and content of the monographs, paying particular attention to the types of sources the scholar uses and how they found them. This class will give students a window into what studying history outside of the traditional archive can imply. Indeed, African historians cannot rely solely on well classified archival documents in national or regional archives. Scholars of African history have found all sorts of ingenious ways of identifying sources, and we will follow them on their journeys.