| Course Title: When People Met Power: Political Accountability in Africa Before 1750 |
| Start Date: 09/04/2019 End Date: 12/17/2019 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2019 |
| Description: This course traces the long history of political accountability in Africa. How did Africans wrest good governance from their leaders? How did they understand civic virtue and social responsibility? What principles of political logic did kingdoms share with societies without kings and royal women? How did gender contribute to structures of authority? What sources and methods enable us to productively approach a period of time distant from our own? |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Holly Hanson | 413-538-2094 | hhanson@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/04/2019 - 12/17/2019 | Discussion | Monday and Wednesday | 09:30AM - 10:45AM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 212 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| CST0001 | CSTH: Critical Social Thought major | This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor. |
| CST0001 | CSTH: Critical Social Thought minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| HIST-140-01 When People Met Power |
| AFCNA-140-01 When People Met Power |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 14 | Available: 4 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali Author: Niane, D. T. Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 1405849428 Publisher: Longman |
Required | 17.67 |
| Title: The Walking Qu'ran;Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in We Author: Ware, Rudolph Copyright: 2014 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 1469614316 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press |
Required | 32.95 |
| Title: Arrow of God Author: Achebe, Chinua Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0385014805 Publisher: Penguin Books |
Required | 14.95 |
| Title: Bantu Africa: 3500 BCE to Present (African World Histories) Author: Fourshey, Cymone, Rhonda M. Gonzalez, Christine Saidi Copyright: 2017 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 978019934 Publisher: Oxford University Press |
Required | 22.95 |
| Title: The Life of Walatta-Petros: A Seventeenth-Century Biography of an African W Author: Galawdewos, Wendey Belcher et al Copyright: 2018 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780691182919 Publisher: Princeton University Press |
Required | 14.20 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Copies are on order at Odyssey Bookshop |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: I strongly urge class members to purchase these texts at the Odyssey. who will do their best to find clean used copies. All will be on reserve at the MHC library. Ware, the Walking Qur'an, is available as an ebook through our library. Note that I have ordered the concise, paperback edition of The Life of Our Mother Walatta-Petros. The hardcover edition has beautiful, in-color seventeenth century illustrations - if you are able to find an inexpensive edition of the hardcover book, you will enjoy having it. |