HIS 415 EAST AFRICA SINCE 1945

A focus on key historical events and ideas in East Africa since 1945. Explores the economic, cultural, and political factors that have historically created some regional integration (East Africa as a region), as well as the formation of individual nation states (i.e., Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda). Significant themes such as nationalism, decolonization, socialism, pan-Africanism, gender, and religion will be explored, with a view to examining the perspectives of different historical actors and the challenges that varying points of view pose to the construction of individual nation-states in East Africa and to the notion of East Africa as a region.