HIST 273 - East Africa: A Thousand Years

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2011 and alternate years.

Detailed study of East Africa (the area today occupied by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) during the past millennium. Topics include the Swahili city-states of the coast, farming and herding societies of the Rift Valley, Great Lakes kingdoms, Zanzibar Sultanate, European colonial rule, and successes and failures of modern nation-states. Jennings.