This is a year-long course.
Students are free to take only one or both semesters.
The course provides a general introduction to interdisciplinary African studies, embracing aspects of history, archaeology, anthropology, litereature, and art history. The main geopolitical foci will be Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and Mali, arranged in clusters. Readings will allow us to examine the ways in which women experienced imperialisms, European and African. The first semester's focus will be contestations over gender, education, history, and politics, with attention to Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, important sites of imperial momentum.