The course – taking the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a specific case-study – examines the trajectories the continent has experienced since the end of the colonial domination up to the present "new rush for Africa".
Lectureship: Associated Professor Maria Stella Rognoni
Last update: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (09.09.2023)
Course completion requirements
Attending students are required to actively participate in class discussions; in the second part of the second module they will be asked to work on a specific topic related to the themes of the course, to present in class the results of their research and to write a final essay (10/12 pages max.) The final assessment will be based on : - the active participation in class 30% - the case study organisation 20% - the case study presentation in class 20% - the written essay 30% No final exam for attending students
Non attending students: an oral exam (or written at student's choice) on the course program consisting in answering open questions based on the topics presented by the authors of the suggested books.
Last update: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (03.08.2023)
Literature
Reading material for the preparation of the exam. Attending students: - Kevin C Dunn, Imagining the Congo: The International Relations of Identity, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xi + 196 pp. - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History, London: Zed Books, 2002
-Attending students will also be given other reading materials (articles, essays, primary documents) in class that will be uploaded on the course's Moodle page
Non attending students: - P. Nugent, Africa since independence : a comparative history, New York Macmillan : Palgrave ; 2012, pp. 1-57. - E. Schmidt, Foreign Intervention in Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2013. - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History, London: Zed Books, 2002
Recommended reading for all students who have no previous knowledge of African history: - Dennis Laumann, Colonial africa 1884-1994, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013.
All the volumes will be found at the Library of the School of Political Science.
Last update: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (03.08.2023)
