HIST 390 Topics in Western History: The Making of East Africa

The Making of East Africa

This is a thematic East African history course introducing students to social, political, and economic developments of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1960 to contemporary times. It cultivates student appreciation of the history of the countries of East Africa, the regions inhabitants, cultures, and economic experiences as part of the global village. Using different approaches, including lectures and group discussions, the course enlivens the patterns of interaction of East Africans with people from other parts of the world. We also use a variety of narratives and archival sources of past decades, contemporary scholarship, and popular discourse to capture the East African federal experience.

This course satisfies Goals 1.1 and 3H of the KU Core.