HISTORY AND POLITICS OF MEDITERRANEAN AND EASTERN AFRICA

Enrollment year

2017/2018

Academic year

2017/2018

Regulations

DM270

Academic discipline

SPS/13 (HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF AFRICA)

Department

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Course

AFRICAN AND ASIAN STUDIES

Curriculum

PERCORSO COMUNE

Year of study

1°

Period

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 30/05/2018)

ECTS

Lesson hours

40 lesson hours

Language

Italian

Activity type

ORAL TEST

Teacher

MORONE ANTONIO MARIA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Prerequisites

a general knowledge of the African history

Learning outcomes

The course is devoted to the study of modern and contemporary African history

Course contents

Main topics: State formation in the Horn of Africa and Easter Mediterranean Africa.
Institutional and political transition in Contemporary Libya, Tunisia and Egypt

Teaching methods

lectures delivered by the teacher and individual or group seminar prepared by the students

Reccomended or required readings

1a. Federico Cresti, Massimiliano Cricco, Storia della Libia contemporanea, Roma, Carocci, 2015

oppure

1b. Dirk Vandewalle, A history of modern Libya, Cambridge university press, Cambridge, 2006 (trad. it. disponibile da Salerno editore, Roma, 2007)

2a. Ali Jimale Ahmed, The invention of Somalia, Lawrenceville (N.J.) : Red sea press, 1995

oppure

2b. Markus V. Hoehne and Virginia Luling (eds.), Peace and milk, drought and war: somali culture, society and politics. Essays in honour of I. M. Lewis, Hurst & Company, London, 2010

Antonio M. Morone, L’ultima colonia. Come l'Italia è tornata in Africa, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2011.

Assessment methods

oral exam

Further information

oral exam

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