Fr Spkg Africa:Hist/Soc/Pol

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

A series of in-depth studies of selected topics in French-speaking African history, politics, economics, societies, and mass-media: the Berlin Congress, assimilation and indirect rule, African socialism, modernization, conflicting social structures from French family-run monopolies to government-run daily newspapers, and media broadcasting trends. Cross-listed with the African Studies Program. This course fulfills the upper-division culture requirement for the French major.