This course examines Africa's urban past. It first concentrates on precolonial cities as centres of political organization, religious learning, regional and long-distance trade and, thereafter, on urban health, crime, women, crowds, squatters, workers and political movements during the colonial and post-independence eras.
Prerequisites: AP/HIST 2750 6.00 or AP/HIST 3780 6.00 or AP/SOSC 2480 9.00 or AP/HIST 3480 6.00 or departmental permission. Course credit exclusions: None.
Open to: This course is restricted to History and African Studies Honours majors and minors who have successfully completed at least 84 credits.
PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HIST 4770 6.00.