Course curriculum

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    Course Powerpoint Slides
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    Week 1: The Amazigh (Berbers), the Basra Rebellion, and Sundiata
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    Week 2: Books and Gold- Mali and Songhay
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    Week 3: North Central Developments
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    Week 4: Swahili City States and World Trade
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    Week 5: Queen Mothers
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    Week 6: Quilombos- African Communities in the Americas
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    Week 7: The Rise of the Zulu Kingdom
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    Week 8: ZEMENE MESAFINT Time of the Princes and Empire in Ethiopia
  • 10
    Week 8* From Berlin to Adwa
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    Bonus Weeks- Transnational Lives of Liberation
  • WHLO Part 2 Lectures WHLO Part 2 Lectures.pdf
  • Recording of Session 1- February 8, 2025 Recording of Session 1- February 10, 2024 Recording of Session 1- January 14, 2023 Recording of Session 1-January 9, 2021 (Copy and paste link into broswer) Fundamental Reading- Chapter 6 Pages from UNESCO History of Africa IV North_Africa_A_History_from_Antiquity_to_the_Prese..._----_(3._Medieval_North_Africa_From_the_Arrival_of_Islam_to_the_Berber_Empir...) The Almoravid and the Almohad Empires and Their Successor States Zanj Rebellion by Sheriff (2018) Link to Performance of The Epic of Sundiata Fundamental Reading- Shallal on Mali Fundamental Reading- Women in the African Epic Optional Advanced Reading- Oral Version of Sunjata Epic Optional Advanced Reading- History in the Sunjata Epic
  • Recording of Session 2- January 16, 2021 (Copy and paste link into browser) Recording of Session 2- January 22, 2022 Recording of Session 2 - January 21, 2023 Recording of Session 2- February 17, 2024 Recording of Session 3- February 24, 2024 Fundamental Reading- The Age of Mansa Musa of Mali Fundamental Reading- Sankore by Henrik Clarke Fundamental Reading- Chapter 8 Pages from UNESCO History of Africa IV Fundamental Reading- Road to Timbuktu Optional Reading- ZamoskyLisa_2007_Cover_MansaMusaLeaderOfMali Optional Reading- THE_CHARTER_OF_KURUKAN_FUGA__Anglais_1 Optional Reading- LA_CHARTE_DE_KURUKAN_FUGA Optional Reading- Ahmad Baba al Timbukti and his Islamic critique of racial slavery in the Maghrib Optional Reading- The Destruction of Knowledge Video Links The Epic of Askyia Muhammad
  • Recording of Session 3- January 23, 2021 (Copy and paste link into browser) Recording of Session 3- January 29, 2002 (Copy and paste link into browser) Recording of Session 3- January 28, 2023 Fundamental Reading- Hiribarren - 2016 - Kanem-Bornu Fundamental Reading- Kanem_origins_and_growth_sixth_tenth_centuries Fundamental Reading- Sultanate of_ Mai Idris Alooma (1571-1603) mai_dunama_dibalami_1210_1248 Fundamental Reading- Chapter 15 Pages from UNESCO History of Africa III Fundamental Reading- Chapter 9 Pages from UNESCO History of Africa IV Optional Advanced Reading- Chapter 10 Pages from UNESCO History of Africa IV Optional Advanced Reading- Chapter 17 Pages from UNESCO General History V Optional Advanced Reading- African_Bibliophiles_Books_an road_to_zero_wealth
  • Recording of Session on BHM and the Swahili City States- February 6, 2021 (Copy and paste link into browser) Recording of Session 4- February 4, 2023 East Africa and the Middle East relationship from the first millennium BC to about 1500 AD Fundamental Reading- MuganeJohnM_2015_AClassicalEra_TheStoryOfSwahili Fundamental Reading- Chapter 21 Pages from UNESCO History of Africa III Fundamental Reading- indian_ocean_trade_and_the_swahili_coast Fundamental Reading- A history of the ancient Swahili town... of Kilwa Kisiwani and adjacent islands Video Links Concerning Swahili City States Optional Advanced Reading- Swahili Merchants and Regional Marketing on the East African Coast, Seventh to Sixteenth Centuries AD Optional Advanced Reading- Preindustrial Social and Political Networks in East Africa The Epic of Liyongo The Liyongo Conundrum: Reexamining the Historicity of Swahilis' National Poet-Hero The Swahili Saga of Liongo Fumo malik_ambar_15481626_the_rise_and_fall_of_military_slavery The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem Christian Muslim Relations in China and Japan in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (Yasuke)
  • Recording of Session on Queen Mothers - January 30, 2021 (Copy and paste link into browser) Recording of Session on BHM and Queen Mothers- February 5, 2022 Recording of Session 4- March 2, 2024 Recording of Session on Queen Mothers- March 2, 2024 Fundamental Reading- Farrar Matriarch Queen Mother Fundamental Reading- Queen Mother Ntombazi Fundamental Reading- Queen Mother in Buganda Optional Advanced Reading- Aidoo on Asantewaa Optional Advanced Reading- Queen Mother Nandi Optional Advanced Reading- Princess Mkabayi Kajama 3174572 The Royal Women of Buganda 5_Chapter_2_From_Dahomey_s_Origins_to_1740_page_40 6_Chapter_3_The_Age_of_Tegbesu_and_Hwanjile_page_81
  • Recording of Session on Kilombos and Central Africa- February 13, 2021 (Copy and paste link into browser) Recording of Session on Kilombos and the African Diaspora 1500s-1700s- February 12, 2022 Recording of Session 6- February 11, 2023 Recording of Session 6-March 9, 2024 Fundamental Reading- Anderson 1996 Fundamental Reading- Price 2011 WoodPeterH_2003_CHAPTER1TheEarliestAf_StrangeNewLandAfrican Optional Advanced Reading- “The Other Quilombos,” Roger Bastide – Gender in Maroon Societies EARLY PLOTS AND REBELLIONS American-Negro YANGA_AND_THE_BLACK_ORIGINS_OF Gaspar Yanga the-sage-encyclopedia-of-african-cultural-heritage-in-north-america_i3864 African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas queen nzinga- she never stopped fighting Thornton on Nzinga SLAVERY_AND_ITS_TRANSFORMATION origins_of_kongo_a_revised_vision
  • Recording of Session 7 on Zulu- February 20, 2021 (Copy and paste link into browser) Recording of Session 7- February 18, 2023 Recording of Session 7- March 16, 2024 Fundamental Reading- “THE WARS OF SHAKA" Princess Mkabayi Kajama Fundamental Reading- Mzilikazi Fundamental Reading- Lobengula_Kumalo Fundamental Reading- Mfecane from Encyclopedia of South Africa Optional Advanced Reading- Who ruled by the spear_ Rethinking the form of governance in the Ndebele state Optional Advanced Reading- Climate and the Mfecane Zulu Video
  • Recording of Session 8 on The Horn and Adwa- February 27, 2021 (Copy and paste link into browser) Recording of Session 8- February 25, 2023 Recording of Session 8- March 23, 2024 Sabla Wangêl, the queen of the Kingdom of Heaven Fundamental Reading- Tatyu UNESCO Fundamental Reading- EIGHT ETHIOPIAN WOMEN OF THE "ZEMENE MESAFINT" (c. 1769-1855) The Chronicle of King Theodore of Abyssinia Optional Advanced Reading-2 Negash 2006 Optional Advanced Reading- Molvaer 1998 on Yodit The_Battle_of_Adwa_African_Victory_in_the_Age_of_E..._----_(7._“Something_Humiliating_for_My_Kingdom”) Violence in the Zemene Mesafint Téwodros the Modernizer Emperor Theodore II and the Kingdom of Shoa 1855-1865 This_Ethiopian_Prince_was_Kidnapped Ethiopia requests repatriation of remains of Prince Alemayehu THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY JIHĀD IN ETHIOPIA AND THE IMPACT ON ITS CULTURE Part 1 THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY JIHĀD IN ETHIOPIA AND THE IMPACT ON ITS CULTURE Part 2 Muslim Christian Wars and the Oromo Expansion Towards a History of Women in Medieval Ethiopia
  • Video Links Abd al-Qadir - Oxford Reference Abd al-Qadir ʿAbd al-Qādir’s Jihād in the Light of the Western Islamic Jihād Tradition Abd al-Qadir - Oxford Reference Nsoumer, Fatma Lalla Fatma N’Soumer The West India Regiments in the Anglo-Ashanti War, 1873–74 - The British Library The West India Regiments in the Anglo-Ashanti War, 1873–74 - The British Library Resistance in the Congo Free State_ 1885-1908 VansinaJan_2010_1CongoBecomingAColony_BeingColonizedTheKuba
  • Recording of Lecture on Martin Delany and Edward Wilmot Blyden- March 4, 2023 Recording of Lecture on Fanny Jackson Coppin and John Horse- March 11, 2023 Recording of Lecture on Visionaries and Liberators- March 18, 2023 Maceo and Haiti James Africanus Horton Ahead of His Time concluding_remarks_advice_to_the_rising_generation_in_west_africa HollisRLynch_1967_3ThePanNegroGoalClass_EdwardWilmotBlydenPan 10.4324_9781315052489-15_chapterpdf maceo_y_grajales_antonio_1845_1896 James Africanus Horton Ahead of His Time HollisRLynch_1967_3ThePanNegroGoalClass_EdwardWilmotBlydenPan Edward W Blyden s intellectual tradition the place of race and religion