AFS 3250 - Ethnohistory of Sub-Saharan East Africa

This is a seminar course in the ethnohistory of Sub-Saharan East Africa, from the point of view of the African storytellers as well as that of the western historians. The main focus of the course will be in Upper Nile River in Sudan, and Lake Rudolf, the region known as “the cradle of humankind,” in northern Kenya, the Omo river and its delta in southern Ethiopia, the Karamoja Plateau in northern Uganda.

Credits: 3 hours