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Lecturer(s)
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Fajfr Alexander, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Krechovská Dana, Doc. M.A., Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) Methodology, sources, oral history 2) Chronology of African Past 3) Early African Civilizations 4) Axum and Christianity in the Horn of Africa 5) Cultures of the Gulf of Guinea 6) Islam, Trade, and Great Empires of West Africa 7) Kongo Kingdom, Tropical Rainforest 8) Mwenemutapa, Great Zimbabwe, South Africa 9) Madagascar and the Swahili Coast 10) Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa since 16th to 19th century 11) Islam and resistence in the 19th century 12) Africa before the Scramble 13) Summary
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Discussion, Group discussion, Individual study, Self-study of literature, Textual studies, Lecture, Seminar
- Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15)
- 32 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 80 hours per semester
- Practical training (number of hours)
- 39 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 39 hours per semester
- Graduate study programme term essay (40-50)
- 70 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| Course requires no special prior knowledge and skills. |
| learning outcomes |
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| Student will gain knowledge of Africa's eraly and precolonial history and will be able to analyze complex historical trajectories of African societies, religions, and states. |
| teaching methods |
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| Lecture |
| Seminar |
| Textual studies |
| Group discussion |
| Self-study of literature |
| Individual study |
| Discussion |
| assessment methods |
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| Combined exam |
| Test |
| Seminar work |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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Recommended literature
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GARLAKE, Peter S. Early art and architecture of Africa. Oxford, 2002.
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Thompson, Leonard. A history of South Africa. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-300-06543-4.
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Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in teh making of the Atlantic world,1400-1800. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-62724-9.
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Vansina, Jan. How societies are born : governance in West Central Africa before 1600. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8139-2280-1.
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