Africans: The History of a Continent (African Studies)

African Studies

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  • Degree programmes with focus on Africa
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  • An interdisciplinary focus on Africa
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    • Some Africans and European slavers allowed these rumors of themselves as man-eaters to stand unchallenged.

    Degree programmes with focus on Africa

    Pursuing Justice in Africa focuses on visions of justice across the African continent, featuring essays that engage with topics at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship across a wide range of disciplines including activism, land tenure, international legal institutions, and post-conflict reconciliation. Interdisciplinary and intended for nonspecialists, this book provides a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa.

    Bestselling Series

    "Reading this seminal work afresh has made me appreciate just what an extraordinary achievement it really is." -John Parker, Journal of African History. Review of previous edition: 'I have never read a more original, stimulating, current and authoritative text; it ranks with the best creative masters of the genre who.

    David Rawson draws on declassified documents and his own experiences as the initial US observer of the Rwandan peace talks at Arusha to seek out what led to the Rwandan genocide. The result is a commanding blend of diplomatic history and analysis of the crisis and of what happens generally when conflict resolution and diplomacy fall short. In Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell details the life histories of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved in Ethiopia in the late nineteenth century, liberated by the British navy, and ultimately sent to a Free Church of Scotland mission in South Africa, where their stories were recorded through a series of interviews.

    McDow synthesizes Indian Ocean, Middle Eastern, and East African studies to explain how in the nineteenth century, credit, mobility, and kinship knit together a vast interconnected Indian Ocean region.

    An interdisciplinary focus on Africa

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    At least one African History survey course: Four additional African Studies courses from History, the Social Sciences, or Humanities with the following conditions: Students who complete 1 credit of coursework through SILP may count their language instruction as 1 credit out of the total 5 credits. Students are encouraged to study abroad in Africa, and they may count 1 course taken abroad to fulfill one of the additional history, social sciences, or humanities course requirements.

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    Our lecturers also play an active role in every individual's education, acting as mentors and community builders. Please note that this guide applies to the current academic year, which means that the curriculum for next year may slightly differ.

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    This means that we have an enormous wealth of expertise available and we are always able to successfully match our students with a researcher who shares their specific interest. One of the fields I am interested in, for example, is security and radicalisation.

    Mirjam de Bruijn

    Roman settlement occurred in modern Tunisia and elsewhere along the coast. Cold War conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union , as well as the policies of the International Monetary Fund , [ citation needed ] also played a role in instability. Between and , the British West Africa Squadron seized approximately 1, slave ships and freed , Africans who were aboard. Search this Guide Search. The African studies minor allows students to create a coherent course of study by taking at least 5 courses that offer breadth and depth in the study of the continent. Vodun altar in Abomey , Benin. But this can be difficult when you look at francophone countries less affected by the cold war who received significant French economic support.

    To understand the current debates in Europe about migration and radicalisation you need a good understanding of the developments in Africa. They arrange their internships in Africa themselves. However, we do offer students some guidance in this process. We have alumni working in journalism, but also as policy officers for the EU government.

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    I also know of some alumni who are working in Africa at NGOs. One of our alumni is now working in Mali for the Dutch Ministry of Defence, for example. What can our students expect from this programme?

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