AP/HIST 4770 6.00 The African Urban Past: From the Pre-Colonial Era to the Present

AP/HIST 4770 6.00

The African Urban Past: From the Pre-Colonial Era to the Present

This course examines Africa’s urban past. It first concentrates on precolonial cities as centres of political organization, religious learning, regional and long-distance trade and, thereafter, on urban health, crime, women, crowds, squatters, workers and political movements during the colonial and post-independence eras.