| MAHI570 |
Research Methodology (CORE) |
This module equips learners with advanced social research methodologies and encourages critical and analytical reasoning. It teaches them to plan, conduct and present both qualitative and quantitative research findings. It empowers them to perform quantitative analysis, conduct archival work, equip them with ethnographic field techniques and presentation skills, as well as imbue them with research ethics. |
| MAHI502 |
Colonialism and Decolonisation in the Global South (OPTIONAL) |
This module examines the various debates and theories on colonisation and decolonisation in the global South. It uses several case studies to help explain the debates and theories, explaining the peculiar experiences and responses of given groups. The module also explains the different responses to colonial encroachment, assessing both their efficacy and limitations. In the process, it addresses the simple categorization of responses to colonialism as simply either resistance or collaboration/acquiescence. |
| MAHI503 |
Civil Society and Social Movements (OPTIONAL) |
This module examines the role played by global civil society and social movements in connecting people around the world. These international civil society organizations focus on issues such as democracy, socialism, labour, human rights, gender and climate change among others. The module examines how these international civil society organizations have influenced people, governments and multilateral institutions. |
| MAHI504 |
International Political Economy (OPTIONAL) |
This module specifically focuses on the role played by the economy in influencing relations between nations and between nationals and multilateral institutions. It focuses on the unequal trade relations between developed and developing countries, the role of economic superpowers, the role of technology, regional economic blocs, World Trade Organisation,and the role of international financial institutions among others. |
| MAHI505 |
Oral Tradition in African History (OPTIONAL) |
This course examines the transmission of Africa’s unwritten history by word of mouth. It explores the various methods through which this history was generated and assesses its usefulness and limitations. In the process, the course enables students to compare oral traditions with other sources of history. |
| MAHI506 |
Historical Perspectives on Women and Gender in Africa (OPTIONAL) |
The module explores African history from a gender perspective using a theoretical framework of contemporary gender studies. Students will be introduced to the challenges of applying a gendered perspective to the study of African history. This is achieved not only by examining how gendering African history allows the re-integration of African women into historical narrative but also and above all by engaging in an epistemological re-thinking of the categories, methodologies and sources we use to write Africa history. The module will analyse gender in relation to other concepts such as class, race, ethnicity, imperialism and sexuality and how these categories shaped the historical experiences of African women and men. The module focuses on how politics, economics and law in Africa have maintained and forced and produced gender across time and space; and how these dimensions have also been affected by the shifting landscapes of power and specific discourse on gender and how certain patterns of femininities and masculinities have been constructed, rejected and appropriated. |
| MAHI507 |
Land and Agrarian History of Africa (OPTIONAL) |
This module traces the history of land in Africa, focusing specifically on issues of tenure, expropriation, gender, reform, uses and conservation in different parts of the continent over different times. It examines the politics (factors, processes and consequences) of landlessness and equips learners with skills to contribute to policies from an evidence-based perspective. The land reform programme in Zimbabwe will be a mandatory reference point |
| MAHI508 |
Race, Class and Ethnicity (OPTIONAL) |
This module examines the interplay between race, class and ethnicity in shaping relations in the plural societies of Africa from the pre-colonial times. It determines the extent to which the history of the continent has been and continues to be influenced and shaped by race, class and ethnic dynamics, and how these categories are particularly critical in our appreciation of the sharp social cleavages prevalent in Africa today. The role of the outside world in creating and or exacerbating these cleavages is stressed. By and large, the module enables learners to employ race, class and ethnicity as tools of analysis in the study of African history and how these can enable critical thinking and analysis in understanding and trying to shape contemporary relations. |
| MAHI509 |
Global Peace and Security (OPTIONAL) |
This module examines threats to world peace and humanity. It focuses on issues such as proliferation of nuclear weapons, religious fundamentalism, conflict over resources, proxy wars, maritime disputes and cyber warfare. The module examines the role played by regional and multilateral institutions to maintain world peace and security. |
| MAHI510 |
Religion and Culture in Africa (OPTIONAL) |
This module examines the interface between African religion and culture and how these have shaped socio-political and economic dynamics on the continent over space and time. The challenges emanating from the dilution of African traditional religions and cultures through contacts with the outside world are also analysed, assessing how this has and continues to impact on development, peace and security on the continent. At the centre of these analyses would be the African agency which has seen Africans continue to maintain and cherish their strong cultural and religious heritage despite the serious onslaughts from outside religions and cultures, particularly in the past two and half centuries or so. |
| MAHI511 |
History of Independent Africa (OPTIONAL) |
History of Contemporary Africa focuses on topical issues that are prevalent in post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa today. The module empowers students of Africa in general and African history in particular to understand the dynamics of these issues, their repercussions on the continent and how such issues can be addressed. Some of the topical issues to be studied include: wars and insecurity, famine in Africa, democracy and elections as well as corruption among others. |
| MAHI512 |
African Migration and the diaspora (OPTIONAL) |
Experiences of free and forced migration have transformed the political, economic, social and cultural identities of modern societies around the globe. This module explores migration as lived experience and examines socio-cultural and political dimensions to transnational spaces and diasporic identities. It further examines the nature of African migrations and diasporan communities and their political, economic and social impact on Africa and the rest of the world. |
| MAHI513 |
Military History of Africa (OPTIONAL) |
The course explores the military history of Africa since the pre-colonial period paying particular attention to militarism and its various manifestations such as weaponisation;military intrusions; coups and military regimes; militarisation of state apparatus and processes; arms trafficking; and liberation, civil and interstate wars. It also interrogates ways in which military developments have shaped Africa’s social, political and economic landscape. |
| MAHI570 |
Dissertation (CORE AND COMPULSORY) |
Students will be required to write a dissertation on a topic to be approved by the department in the second year of their study. |
