African Politics

3 credits · Undergraduate

Pre-colonial to the present. State-building, socioeconomic development, public service provision, and foreign interventions. Conflict including: separatism, insurgency, slavery, genocide, and gender-based violence. Rise of democracy including party systems, voting behavior, electoral competition, fraud. Identity politics of ethnicity, gender, class, and clash of Western and local norms. Offered on a graded basis only. Prerequisite or corequisite: 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, or 1150. [3] (SBS)