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Agenda Monday, July 4

Agenda Monday, July 4. Introductions Course overview Syllabus Classroom etiquette plan Lecture: Overview of African historiography Exercise and discussion: creating a précis and using photographs to study African history. Course Goals.

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Agenda Monday, July 4

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  1. AgendaMonday, July 4 Introductions Course overview Syllabus Classroom etiquette plan Lecture: Overview of African historiography Exercise and discussion: creating a précis and using photographs to study African history

  2. Course Goals • Understand ideas which facilitated, promoted, critiqued and challenged European control in Africa. • Assess and judge evidence, and use it to support ideas and conclusions. • Compare contrasting arguments, critique their merits and flaws, and offer analysis towards their applicability and usefulness. • Identify the thesis of an argument, and place it within the African historiography. • Connect historical patterns between pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial contexts.

  3. Classroom etiquette • Brainstorm 5-10 rules which will guide discussion in the classroom.

  4. Historiographical overview of African history • What is historiography? • Why do historians of Africa do what they do, and what do they hope to achieve?

  5. Time Periods and Ideologies • 1920s-1950s: Colonial • 1950s/60s: Nationalist • 1960s/70s: Radical • 1980s/90s: Social history/Post-modernism and post-structuralism

  6. Colonial Historiography • Drive and validate colonial rule • Africa had no history • Racist and Eurocentric ideas Citation: Count of Turin, Mrs. Leggett. Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston. Object 8-1-1-2. 3 July, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2166.DL/inu-wint-8-1-1-2.

  7. Nationalist Historiography • ‘New African Historiography’ • Assert that Africa had a history • Legitimate the African nation-state

  8. Radical Historiography • Neo-colonial connections • Dependency theory • Marxism

  9. Social/Post-Modern Historiography • Agency • Rationale self-interest • History from the ‘bottom-up’ • Moving beyond the structures of the nation-state

  10. Précis Exercise A précis should clearly state; • What was studied, argued, and discussed. • How this was done. • Why the author wrote what they did. • What was learned. • What it means, or why it is important A précis is different from a summary, as it is free of editorializing. You are not being asked to present your assessment of the reading or the author’s argument.

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