The African Independence Movement

This course is designed to broaden students' understanding of the systematic forces and catalysts of the independence movements in twentieth-century Africa. It employs the case study approach to examine the reaction of the Europeans. Each student selects a country or region of major interest as a continuing vantage point of cultural perspective for a case analysis. Finally, this course examines the post-colonial- and post-independence-era relations of economic structures, political institutions, and class formation to neocolonialism.