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MALAWI ASSEMBLIES OF GOD UNIVERSITY

PROGRAMME : Bachelor of Education Humanities


SUBJECT : Humanities
YEAR/LEVEL OF STUDY : Year Two/Semester One
COURSE TITLE : Themes in African History
COURSE CODE : HIS 2033
DURATION : 16 Weeks
PRESENTED TO : Senate
PRESENTED BY : Faculty of Education.
LECTURES HOURS PER WEEK: 3 hours
TUTORIAL HOURS PER SEMESTER: 7 hours
PRACTICAL HOURS PER SEMESTER: 8 hours
STUDENT INDEPENDENT LEARNING HOURS PER WEEK: 10 hours
TOTAL COURSE CREDITS: 45 hours
PREREQUISITE COURSES: HIS1023: History of East and Central Africa
COREQUISITE COURSE: N/A

DELIVERY METHODS:
 Mode of Delivery: Face to face and Google classroom.
 Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, class discussions/dialogue, literary
analysis paper, student presentations, and demonstration.
ASSESSMENT METHODS:
 Final Examination 40%
 At Least Three Bi-Weekly Quiz Exams 10%
 Three short assignment 10%
 Mid Semester Examination 20%
 Semester Long Course Projects 20%

ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING: 60% continuous assessments Examination and 40% final


examinations
AIM(S) OF THE COURSE
This course gives a particular African perspective on the continents past. It also provides
discussion on developments which are relevant to an understanding of archaeology. It therefore
introduces the basic techniques and theories in archaeology focusing on the methods and theory
used by prehistoric people to reconstruct archaeological cultures, life ways and histories in African
societies.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:
1. develop an understanding of the nature of archaeological data and the different methods and
approaches used by archaeologists to understand human cultural evolution through material
culture analyses.
2. extend the perspective of the relationship between prehistoric and modern material culture as
it reflects the by-product of human activities.
3. develop the knowledge of the ways in which prehistoric African people adapted to a variety of
environmental and social changes over the past several thousands of years.
4. narrate the spread of Islam and Christianity.
5. explain the role of European mercantilism commerce and trade
6. describe the role of Arabs in Africa

TOPICS OF STUDY

Unit 1: Introduction to Archaeology


a. The Meaning of Archaeology
b. A Short History of Archaeology
c. Location, survey and recording of
Archaeological Sites
d. Archaeological Excavation
e. Analysis and Interpretation
Unit 2: The Study of African Pre-history
a. The dawn of mankind: the search for
our ancestors
b. The technological foundations: the
tool use and manufacture by early
hominids
c. The economic and social
foundations: emergence of hunting
and gathering
societies.

d. Regional perspective on
archaeological evidence recovered
from Africa.
 eastern Africa
 southern central Africa
e. The emergence of anatomically
modern man and development of
hunting Gathering communities.
Unit 3: The Spread of Iron Working
a. Hunting and gathering communities
dating to between 20,000 BC and
2,000 BC
b. Development of prehistoric art.
c. The beginning and development of
food production agriculture and
animal husbandry.
d. The development of food production
economies in Africa
e. Regional perspective on
archaeological evidence for
development
f. The origin and development of iron
technology in Africa
g. Regional perspective on the
development of iron technology in
Sudan, Sahara and
west Africa.
h. Regional perspective on the
development of iron technology in
central, eastern and southern Africa.
i. The archaeology of the east African
coast.
Unit 4: The spread of Islam and Christianity and the impact of African civilization
a. African religious beliefs before Islam
b. Arabs in North America
c. The kingdom of Ethiopia
d. The states of West Africa

Unit 5: The role of European mercantilism on commerce and trade in Africa


a. Political Absolutism
b. Protectionist policies
I.High tariffs
II.Building overseas colonies
III.Export subsidies
c. Wars and imperialism in Africa
Unit 6: The role of Arabs in Africa
a. Arabic influence in religion
b. Arabic influence in trade
c. Arabic influences on African ethnic
languages

Prescribed Texts:
Plastow . J. (2021), A History of East African Theatre, Volume 2: Central East Africa
(Transnational Theatre Histories), Palgrave Macmillan
Meredith . M. (2011), The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence,
PublicAffairs

Recommended Reading:
Schoenburn . D. (2021), The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 (Africa
and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture), University of Wisconsin Press
Mbogoni . L. (2018), Miscegenation, Identity and Status in Colonial Africa: Intimate Colonial
Encounters (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa). Routledge

Moyd. M. (2014),Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism

in German East Africa, Ohio University Press

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