The main topics dealt with in the module are as follows:
History and historiography of Africa
At the dawn of African history: data, hypotheses, interpretations
Africa in the sources of antiquity
Contacts and exchanges between Africa, Asia and Europe until the spreas of Islam
Organization of society and state in Africa before the modern age
Socio-economic models and institutional: how African production; the Sudanese state
Spread and influence of Islam in Africa. Islamic institutions and West African states: the Almoravid penetration and the Ghanaian state; the states of Mali and Songhai
Africa 'discovered' by Europeans: sec. XV-XVIII
Economic and institutional development of the African societies and States in their contacts with the European penetration
Slave trade: interpretations, size, historiographical models. The consequences of slave trade in Africa
Africa from the early nineteenth century to the Berlin Conference (1884-1885)
Exploration and European penetration in Africa during the nineteenth century
The scramble for Africa by the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) to the First World War
The resistance of the peoples to the European conquest
Africa in the first age of European imperialism
Africa and the Italian colonialism: the liberal age
Changes in the colonial division in Africa after World War II
Africa and the Italian colonialism: the Fascist age
The origins of African nationalism: Pan-Africanism and Négritude
African nationalism and decolonization: African independencies and their stages
The colonial legacy in independent nAfrica
Contemporary problems of Africa
Riferimenti bibliografici
Manuale di storia dell'Africa:
- G. Calchi Novati, P. Valsecchi, L’Africa ritrovata. Dalle prime forme politiche alle indipendenze nazionali, Carocci Roma 2005 (o edizioni successive), pp. 11-167
letture di approfondimento consigliate:
- A.M. Gentili, Il leone e il cacciatore. Storia dell’Africa subsahariana, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma 1995, pp. 11-41 (problemi di storiografia dell’Africa) [Bibl. Dip.. Sc. pol. e sociali, : AA.7.84]
- J. Ki-Zerbo, Storia dell’Africa nera, Einaudi, Torino 1977, pp. 3-33 (problemi di storiografia dell’Africa) [Bibl. Fac. Sc. Pol.: AA.7.48]
- C. Coquery-Vidrovitch, H. Moniot, L’Africa nera dal 1800 ai nostri giorni, Mursia, Milano 1977, pp. 237-244 (sull’economia di tratta) [Bibl. Fac. Sc. Pol.: AA.7.28 - AA.7.56]
- H. Moniot, Economia di tratta e schiavitù, in A. Triulzi, A. Bozzo (a cura di), Storia dell’Africa e del Vicino Oriente, collana Il mondo contemporaneo. Enciclopedia di storia e scienze sociali diretta da Nicola Tranfaglia, Firenze 1979, vol. IV, pp. 55-64 [Bibl. Fac. Sc. Pol.: AA.1.77/4]
Riferimenti bibliografici:
MANUALE:
G. Calchi Novati, P. Valsecchi, L’Africa ritrovata. Dalle prime forme politiche alle indipendenze nazionali, CAROCCI,Roma 2005, pp. 169-325
Letture di approfondimento consigliate:
- A.M. Gentili, Il leone e il cacciatore. Storia dell’Africa subsahariana, Roma 1995, pp. 141-188 [Bibl. Fac. Sc. Pol.: AA.7.84]
- C: Coquery-Vidrovitch, Africa nera: mutamenti e continuità, SEI, Torino 1990, pp. 79-99 (resistenza anticoloniale)