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The University of Oxford is one of the world’s leading centers for the study of Africa. In every Faculty and Division across the University, there are active research programmes focused on the continent. The African Studies Centre, within the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, acts as a focal point for graduate level work, faculty research on Africa and successful training programme in its appropriate field.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
Detective Fictions: In Pursuit of Sovereignty in the Postcolony | 00:52:00 | ||
Islam, the ‘Originaires’ and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal | 00:52:00 | ||
Development as an Alien Culture: the purposes of governance in South Africa | 00:40:00 | ||
20 Years of Multi-Partyism in Kenya (African Studies Seminar) | 01:31:00 | ||
100 Years of ‘Struggle’ Between the Polity and the Market in South Africa (African History and Politics Seminar) | 00:46:00 | ||
Dambisa Moyo Lecture (African History and Politics Seminar) | 00:42:00 | ||
The case of the slave ship Progresso: the Royal Navy, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Cape (African Studies Centre Seminar) | 00:52:00 | ||
Encountering Islam in Eastern African: Transnational History and Imperialism, c. 1880-1930 (Global and Imperial History Research Seminar) | 00:54:00 | ||
Politics and Genocide: Rwanda (African Studies Seminar) | 01:08:00 | ||
The Fischer Lecture: Human Rights and the Law in South Africa (African Studies Seminar/Rhodes House Trust) | 01:29:00 | ||
Support Democracy Abroad: The Record in Africa | 00:43:00 | ||
Women, Sports and Societies in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (African History and Politics Seminar) | 00:44:00 | ||
How to Build a Successful Opposition Party in Africa (African History and Politics Seminar) | 00:59:00 | ||
Pan-African Solidarity in the Central African Federation, 1953-1963 (African History and Politics Seminar) | 00:55:00 | ||
Ethnicity, Power and Kinship. Female Chiefs in Tanzania, 1870-1940 | 01:01:00 | ||
‘City, Art, Motion: Rethinking the “Now” in Johannesburg’ (Annual Lecture 2011) | 00:46:00 | ||
Worldliness, Citiness, Postcolonial Life and Thinking from the South | 00:47:00 | ||
The Politics of Legal Pluralism: the Case of Community Policing in Mozambique and Swaziland (African Studies Seminar) | 00:59:00 | ||
‘Rubber Will Not Keep in this Country’ – Failed Development in Benin, 1897-1921 (African History and Politics Seminar) | 00:56:00 | ||
Witchcraft and the Colonial Life of the Fetish (African History and Politics Seminar) | 00:50:00 | ||
ORENGA Special Lecture – Fashola’s Lagos: the man, the method, the megacity | 00:29:00 | ||
Cruising through Uncertainty: Mobile Phone Practices and the Politics of Respect in Southern Mozambique | 00:46:00 | ||
Ethnic violence, water scarcity and managing resources to promote peace | 00:23:00 | ||
Climate Change and Conflict in Sudan: what if development is not the answer to save Darfur? | 00:19:00 | ||
The Ecology of Conflict: Human-Wildlife Conflict on the Hwange National Park Boundary, Zimbabwe’ | 00:18:00 | ||
Power, Ambition and Ideas in the political career of Apartheid Prime Minister H F Verwoerd | 00:46:00 | ||
African Local Knowledge: Natural, Biomedical and Supernatural Ideas about Livestock Health | 00:27:00 | ||
Potency and the Role of the Environment in KhoeSan medicine | 00:30:00 | ||
Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform: Politics, Production and Accumulation | 00:45:00 | ||
The Killing Fields: The Impact of the Global Arms Trade on Africa | 01:01:00 | ||
Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa | 00:42:00 | ||
The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia: Actors, Power and Mobilisation under Ethnic Federalism | 00:40:00 | ||
The Legitimation of Criminal Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: international, national and localised courts | 00:42:00 | ||
Kenya’s Somalia Invasion: Security, Development and Humanitarian Assistance in Eastern Africa | 00:54:00 | ||
Buganda Nationalism in the 21st Century | 00:46:00 | ||
Squatter movements in the Vaal Triangle | 00:35:00 | ||
Somalia after the London Meeting: How Much Difference Does a Day Make? | 00:45:00 | ||
Surviving on the Margins: Youth and the Underground Oil Economy in the Niger Delta | 00:54:00 | ||
2012 Annual African Studies lecture. Diaspora and Spiritual Awakening: Religion and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Life of Kwame Nkrumah | 00:52:00 | ||
The British Army and Mau Mau, 1952-56 | 01:00:00 | ||
‘Now we are all workers.’ The remaking of marginality on the streets of Addis Ababa’s inner city | 00:45:00 | ||
The ANC in Exile | 00:31:00 | ||
Human rights in Africa: opportunities and challenges | 00:41:00 | ||
The return of garrison rule in the Ethiopian Ogaden, 2006-2012 | 01:00:00 | ||
Growing up in the New South Africa | 01:19:00 | ||
Crisis and displacement; different solutions for different kinds of displaced | 00:23:00 | ||
The evolving role of Islamist groups in Somali politics | 00:20:00 | ||
Insider-outsider and gendered dynamics for Somali researchers in Somalia | 00:18:00 | ||
State-building in Somali Studies: Future framework | 00:26:00 | ||
Transitional justice in the Somali setting | 00:35:00 | ||
What are friends for? Friendship and Public life in the post colony: African Studies Centre Annual Lecture 2013 | 01:16:00 | ||
‘Live Dangerously Brothers’: Liberia’s Ex-Combatants and their place in the post war city | 00:53:00 | ||
African Studies and Horn of Africa Seminar: South Sudan Crisis Roundtable | 01:00:00 | ||
African Studies and OCAF Seminar: Staying Out of Place: The Dialectics of Being and Becoming in Exceptional Spaces | 00:51:00 | ||
Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa | 01:07:00 | ||
African Studies Annual Lecture Is Africa Rising? | 00:54:00 | ||
Democracy in Africa | 01:07:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
Certification | 00:00:00 |
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