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Overview
The African Studies Unit offers a full academic programme, concentrated at the graduate level but also including some undergraduate courses. The following degrees are offered as part of the graduate programme:
- Postgraduate Diploma in African Studies
- Honours in African Studies
- Taught Masters in African Studies (in which the dissertation counts 50%)
- Research Masters in African Studies (by dissertation only)
- PhD in African Studies
The African Studies Unit is staffed by faculty with a range of disciplinary backgrounds, who work collaboratively as an interdisciplinary team. Existing teaching strengths and research directions include:
- African and African diasporic critical and intellectual traditions
- Postcolonial and decolonial theory
- Questions of public culture, heritage and memory
- Questions of archive and curation
- Questions of African literature and culture
- Agrarian Studies and questions of land reform and redistribution
- African political economy
Students have substantial freedom in constructing a curriculum that suits their interests. There are also two named streams in African Studies:
- An Honours degree in African Literature and Culture
- Honours and Masters degrees in Public Culture and Heritage in Africa
Courses
- Undergraduate
- Postgraduate
Postgraduate Courses
Academic Programme 2019
Course information is to be updated for 2019
11 February – 17 June 2019: Public Culture Internship Course (AXL4204F)
Click on the course codes below for full course information:
AXL5202F – Problematising the Study of Africa
AXL4201F – Debates in African Studies
AXL4207F – Rethinking Africa’s Development
AXL5204F – The Land and Agrarian Question(s) in Africa
AXL5205F – Rethinking Africa’s Development
AXL4206S- Decolonial Thinking and Practice
AXL 4208S – Pan-Africanism and Regional Integration in Africa
AXL5203S – Critical Issues in Heritage Studies
AXL5206S – Pan-Africanism and Regional Integration in Africa
Undergraduate Courses
Academic Programme 2019
Course information is to be updated for 2019.
Click on the course descriptions below for full course information:
| COURSE CODE | COURSE DESCRIPTION | COURSE CONVENER | CLASS NUMBER |
|---|---|---|---|
| AXL1200S | AFRICA: CULTURE ID AND GLOBALISATION | MS Z. MSOMI | 9373 |
| AXL1201S | REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICA | A/PROF H. CHITONGE | 10509 |
| AXL1202S | REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICA + | A/PROF H. CHITONGE | 10517 |
| AXL1203S | WRITING ACROSS BORDERS | MS A. HUMNA | 12279 |
| AXL2200S | CULTURE ID & GLOBALISATION IN AFRICA | A/PROF H. CHITONGE | 9676 |
| AXL2202F | AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT | MS Z. MSOMI | 11298 |
| AXL2203F | AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT + | A/PROF H. CHITONGE | 11299 |
| AXL3200F | POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICA | DR J. BAM-HUTCHISON | 12159 |
| AXL3201S | LANGUAGE, POWER AND FREEDOM | MS ZUZIWE MSOMI | 12173 |
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