HIST 326 — History of Africa up to 1800
History · University of Ghana
The course treats in considerable detail a wide variety of subjects, including the East African and Indian Ocean trade. Topics to be treated include trade and politics in the Zambesi valley, the Trans- Saharan trade, the Sudanic states and the Moroccan invasion, developments in the Mahgreb during Ottoman rule, religion and conflict in Ethiopia, the inter-lacustrine cluster of States: Iwo, Bacwezi, Bunyoro and Buganda, the Luba and Lunda states, Pre-European trade and society in Southern Africa: Sana and Khoikhoi, the Nguni and Sotho chiefdoms, Dutch settlement, Boer dispersion and Khoisan resistance, the roots of the ―native problem‖, prelude to the Mfecane and the Great Trek.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 300
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- HIST 311 — History of Ghana up to 1800
- HIST 313 — History of Africa up to 1500
- HIST 315 — The Black Diaspora
- HIST 317 — Economic History of West Africa: 1700 to 1890
- HIST 319 — Aspects of Early Modern European History
- HIST 321 — Islam and Christianity in Africa
- HIST 323 — Colonial and Modern India Studies
- HIST 332 — The History of Western Medicine in Ghana
- HIST 334 — Women in History
- HIST 336 — History of Pan-Africanism
- HIST 111 — Earliest Civilizations
- HIST 112 — Selected Topics in World History
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).