AFST 308 - West Africa Since 1800

Fall or Spring (3) La Fleur (GER 4B)

Explores the survival of West Africans in ancient environments, subsequent challenges in trans-Saharan and Atlantic slave trade, colonial overrule, political independence, and ever-increasing globalization as well as relocation to rural America in the early Atlantic era and eventually to contemporary American cities. (Cross listed with HIST 280)