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The African Experience: From “Lucy” to Mandela

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An award-winning and Yale-trained historian reveals Africa in all its complexity, grandeur, tragedy, and resilience so you can understand the events in present-day Africa through their deep historical context.

Syllabus

  • 01: Finding the “Lost Continent”
  • 02: Africa's Many Natural Environments
  • 03: A Virtual Tour of the Great Land
  • 04: The Cradle of Humankind
  • 05: Crops, Cattle, Iron - Taming a Continent
  • 06: Kinship and Community - Societies Take Shape
  • 07: Like Nothing Else - The Ancient Nile Valley
  • 08: Soul and Spirit - Religion in Africa
  • 09: Ethiopia - Outpost of Christianity
  • 10: West Africa's Golden Age
  • 11: The Swahili Commercial World
  • 12: Great Zimbabwe and the Cities of the South
  • 13: The Atlantic Slave Trade - The Scope
  • 14: The Atlantic Slave Trade - The Impact
  • 15: South Africa - The Dutch Cape Colony
  • 16: South Africa - The Zulu Kingdom
  • 17: South Africa - The Frontier and Unification
  • 18: South Africa - Diamonds and Gold
  • 19: Prelude to the Scramble for Africa
  • 20: European Conquest and African Resistance
  • 21: Colonial Africa - New Realities
  • 22: Colonial Africa - Comparisons and Change
  • 23: The Lion Awakens - The Rise of Nationalism
  • 24: The Peaceful Paths to Independence
  • 25: The Congo - Promise and Pain
  • 26: Segregation to Apartheid in South Africa
  • 27: The Armed Struggles for Independence
  • 28: The First Taste of Freedom
  • 29: The Taste Turns Sour
  • 30: The World Turns Down - The “Permanent Crisis”
  • 31: A New Dawn? The Democratic Revival
  • 32: The South African Miracle
  • 33: The Unthinkable - The Rwanda Genocide
  • 34: The New Plague - HIV/AIDS in Africa
  • 35: Zimbabwe - Background to Contemporary Crisis
  • 36: Africa Found
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Kenneth P. Vickery

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