UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI
CENTRE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES
M.A. IN AFRICAN STUDIES
REVISED SYLLABUS OF M.A. PROGRAMME IN AFRICAN STUDIES
(Semester –I and Semester - II)
CREDIT BASED SEMESTER AND GRADING SYSTEM
TO BE INTRODUCED FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016 -2017 onwards
FOR SEMESTER I & II
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M.A. Part I
Semester I (Core Courses)
Course
Codes Course Title End
Sem
Exam Internal
Assessment Hrs
per
week Credits
Paper 1 Problems of African
Economic Development
and Management I 60 40 4 6
Paper 2 History of Africa I 60 40 4 6
Paper 3 State Formation and
Nation Building in Africa I 60 40 4 6
Paper 4 Africa in World affairs I 60 40 4 6
Semester II (Core Courses)
Course
Codes Course Title End
Sem
Exam Internal
Assessment Hrs
per
week Credits
Paper 1 Problems of African
Economic Development
and Management II 60 40 4 6
Paper 2 History of Africa II 60 40 4 6
Paper 3 State Formation and Nation
Building in Africa II 60 40 4 6
Paper 4 Africa in World affairs II 60 40 4 6
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SEMESTER – I
Paper I: Problems of African Economic Development and Management- I
Credits: 06
Preamble: This is one -semester course divided into 4 modules of 12 sessions each. In addition
24 hours are allotted for student preparation under guidance of faculty for projects, seminars and
preparatory class work. The method of instruction will be lectures and seminar presentation of project work. This course aims to introduce students to the economy and development related problems of African countries. This course wil l cover the general aspect of African economic
problems by tracing its history in the colonial times and the current implications. The basic course will be developed further through advanced modules to be offered in the succeeding semester.
Module 1: Econ omy and Natural Resources
o Africa’s natural resources
o Its position in global economy
o Scramble for its resources across the globe
o Inter and intra state conflicts in Africa over natural resources
Module 2: Contextualizing Past
o Role of Colonial Powers in making and unmaking of African economies
o Incorporation of Afr ica into metropolitan economies
Module 3: Post Independence Era
o Post-independent national and foreign policies followed in the economic sectors of
agriculture, trad e, industry and services
o Implicat ions of such policies for African countries and people
Module 4: Debt Ridden Economies
o Management of foreign debt and aid
o Role of international financial institutions such as International Monetary Fund and
World Bank
References
Adebayo, Adedeji, Africa Within the World : beyond Dispossession and Dependence , London,
Zed Books, 1993. Adebayo, Adedeji, Indigenization of African Economies , New York, African Publishing
Company, 1981.
Adebayo, Adedeji, Towards a Dynamic African Economy, Selected Speeches and Lectures 1975-
1986, London, Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1989.
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Adoyada, O., Issues in the Development of Tropical Africa , Ibadan, Ibadan University Press,
1976.
Ake, Claude, Political Economy of Africa , Harlow, Longman 1981.
Akonor, Kwame, African Economic I nstitutions , London, Routledge, 2009.
Arrigni, Giovanni and Saul, John S., Essays on the Political Economy of Africa, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1973. Bates, R. H., Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies ,
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1981.
Beckman, Björn and Adeoti, Gbemisola (ed.), Intellectuals and African Development, Pretension
and Resistance in African Politics , London, Zed Books, 2006.
Berg, Robert and Whitaker, J. S. (eds.), Strategies for African Development , Berkeley,
University of California Press, 1986.
Bigsten, Arne, Bereket, Kebede and Abebe Shimeles (eds.), Poverty, Income Distribution and Labour Markets in Ethiopia, Uppsala, Nordiska Afrikaininstutet, 2005.
Dansereau, Suzanne, Zamponi, Mario and Melber, Henning (eds.), Zimbabwe the Political Economy of Decline , Uppsala, Nordic Africa Institute, 2005.
Fieldhouse, D. K., Black Africa 1945- 1980:
Economic Decolonization & Arrested Development
London, Unwin Hyman, 1986.
Gilbert, Erik, Dhows and Colonial Economy in Zanzibar 1860- 1970, Oxford, James Currey
,
2005.
Gulhati, Ravi, The Making of Economic Policy in Africa, Washington D.C., World Bank, 1990.
Gutkind, P. C. W. (ed.), Unemployment in Africa, Montreal, McGill University Centre for Development Area Studies, 1975. Harris, R. (ed.), The Political Economy of Africa , Cambridge, Schenkman Publication Co., 1975.
Hayer, Judita and Others (eds.), Rural Development in Tropical Africa , London, Macmillan
Press Ltd ., 1981.
Hentz, James J., South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005.
Kabbaj, Omar, The Challenge of African Development , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.
Kamarch, A. M., The Economies of Africa n Development , New York, Praeger Publishers, 1971.
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Kempe, R. H. and Bornwell, C.C. (eds.), Corruption and Development in Africa, Hounds mills,
Macmillan Press, 2000. Krumm, K. L., The External Debt of Sub- Saharan Africa Origins, Magnitude and Implication
For Action , Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1985.
La-Anyane, S., Economics of Agricultural Development in Tropical Africa, Chichester, John
Wiky & Sons, 1985. Lancaster, Carol, Aid to Africa , Chicago, Century foundation book, 1999.
Legum, Colin, Africa in the 1980s: A Continent in Crisis , New York, McGraw- Hill, 1979.
Little, Peter D., Somalia: Economy without State , Oxford, James Currey, 2003.
Livingstone, I and Goodwill, A., Economic & Development: An Introduction, Nairobi, Oxford
University Press, 1974.
Meier, Gerald M. and Steel Williams F. (eds.), Industrial Adjustment in Sub- Saharan Africa,
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989. Melber, Henning, Governance and State Delivery in Southern Africa: Examples from Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe , Uppsala, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007.
Mkandawire, Thandika (ed.), African Voices on Structural Adjustment , Trenton, Africa World
Press, 2003. Mohan, Giles and Tunde, Zack- Williams, The Politics of Transition in Afr ica, Oxford, James
Currey, 2004. Moss, Todd J., African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors, Boulder , Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2007. Nnadorie, Emmanuel (ed.), African Economic Development , Amsterdam , Academic Press
International Publisher, 2003. O’manique, Colleen, Neo-Liberalism and Aids Crisis in Sub- Saharan Africa, Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. OAU, Africa's Priority Programme for Economic Recovery (1986 -1990) ,
Addis Ababa,
Organization of African Unity, 1985. OAU, Lagos Plan of Action for Economic Development of Africa (1980- 2000) ,
Switzerland, International Institute of Labour Studies, 1982.
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OAU, The African Economic Community: The Destiny of a Continent , Switz erland, International
Institute of Labour Studies, 1991.
Ponte, Stefano, Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: How Policy Reforms Affects Rural Livelihoods in Africa, Oxford, James Currey, 2004. Rimmer, D. (ed.), Rural Transformation in Tropical Africa, London, Belhaven Press, 1988. Sadiq Ali, Shanti and Gupta, A. (eds.), Africa Dimension of the Economic Crisis: An Analysis of the Problem and Development , New York, Sterling Publishers Ltd., 1987.
Seidman, A., Planning for Development in Sub- Saharan Afri ca, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Publishing House, 1974. Singh, H., The Economy of Africa, New Delhi, Kalinga Publications, 1992. Singh, Harjinder, Africa a n Economic and Political Study , Delhi, UDH Publishers, 1985.
Somone, Abdoumalio, Urban Africa: Changi ng Contours of the Survival in the City , Dakar,
CODESRIA Books, 2005. Kayizzi -Mugerwa, Steve, The African Economy , London, Routledge, 1998.
Kayizzi -Mugerwa, Steve, Reforming Africa’s Institutions: Ownership, Incentives, and
Capabilities , Tokyo, United N ations University Press, 2003.
Taku, Thomas A., Framework for Industrialization in Africa , Westport, Praeger, 1999.
The World Bank, Sub -Saharan Africa from Crisis to Sustainable Growth: A Long Term
Perspective Study, Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1989.
The World Bank, Towards Sustainable Development in Sub- Saharan Africa: A Joint Programme
of Action , Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1984.
UNECA, African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programme for Socio -
Economic Recovery and Transformation, Addis Ababa, UNECA, 1981./ 1991 Vyas, V.S. and Casley, D., Stimulating Agricultural Growth and Rural Development in Sub -
Saharan Africa, Washington D. C., World Bank, 1988. Wood, Adrian (ed.), Strategies for Sustainability – Africa , London, Earthscan Publishers, 1997.
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Paper II: History of Africa- I
Credits: 06
Preamble: This is one -semester course divided into four modules each. In addition 24 hours are
allocated for student - teacher interaction for helping the students with preparatory work for class,
seminar and project preparation. This Course aims to introduce student s to the history of Africa
from 1885 till the close of World War II. The basic course will be introduce the students to the
colonial period on the continent and its impacts on the future course of history as it unfolded in the post colonial period.
Module 1: Colonisation of Africa
o Scramble for Africa, political and economic aspects
o Partition of the continent , Artificial Boundaries after Treaty of Berlin
Module 2: Patterns of colonial administration, policies and development
o British
o French
o Portuguese, Belgium and German colonial policies
Module 3 : European and African settlements
o Social and economical impact on eastern Africa
o Social and economi cal on southern Africa
Module 4: Africa after First World War
o Colonies and international accountability, establishment of League of Nations, Mandate system
o Africa during inter -war per iod, Rise of Fascism and Nazism
o Evolution of Pan-Africanism and its impact on the anti -colonial movements on the continent
References
Addison, Tony, (ed.) From Conflict to Rec overy in Africa , Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2003. Basil, Davidson, Africa in Modern History :
the Search for a New S ociety , London, Allen Lane,
1978.
Biswas, A., India- Kenya, Political and Economic Relations , Delhi, Kanishka Publishing House ,
1992.
Blyden, E. W., Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race , Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
Press, 1967.
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Collins, Robert O., The Partition of Africa : Illusion or N ecessity? New York, John Wiley &
Sons, 1969.
Cooper, J., The Lost Continent: or, Slavery and the Slave -Trade in Africa 1875, with
Observations on t he Asiatic Slave -Trade Carried on Under the Name of Labour Traffic, and
Some other Subjects , Essex , Frank Cass Co. Ltd, 1968.
Coupland, R., The Exploitation of East Africa, 1856- 1890: The Slave Trade and the Scramble
London, Faber & Faber, Ltd, 1939.
Gann, L. H. and Duigan, Peter, The Burden of Empire: An Appraisal of Western Colonialism in
Africa South of the Sahara, New York, F.A. Praeger, 1967.
Gann, L. H. and Duignan, Peter, Colonialism in Africa: 1870- 1960, 5 vols, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Ghai, D haram . (ed), Portrait of a Minority: Asians in East Africa , Nairobi, Oxford University
Press, 1965.
Gregory, R., India and East Africa: A History of Race Relations within t he British Empire, 1890-
1939, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971.
Leonard, Woolf, Empire and Commerce in Africa: A Study of Economic Imperialism, London,
George Allen & Unwin, 1968.
Lovejoy, P. E., Transformation in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa , Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Lugard, F. J. D., The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, Essex
, Frank Cass Co. Ltd ,
1965.
Mangat, J. S., A History of the Asians in East Africa: 1886 to 1945, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 1969.
Mazrui, Ali A., The African Condition: a P olitical D iagnosis , Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1980.
Museveni, Youweni, Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in
Uganda, London, Macmillan Education, 1997.
Ogude, James and Nyairo, Joyce, Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and
Literature in East Africa , Trenton, Africa World Press, 2007.
Okumu, Washington A. J., African Renaissance: History Significance and Strategy , Trenton ,
Africa World Press Inc, 2002.
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Oliver, Ronald (2nd ed.), The Missionary Factor in East Africa , London, Longman Group Ltd.,
1965. Oliver, Ronals and Fage, J. D. (eds.), The Cambridge History of Africa : From c. 1940 to 1975
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Oucho, John O ., Undercurrents of Ethnic Conflict in Kenya, Leiden, Bri ll Academic Publishers,
2002. Ramchandani, R. R. (ed.), India -Africa Relations , Vol. I and II, New Delhi, Kalinga Publication,
1990. Robinson, Ronald and Callagher, John, Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism , London, Macmillan Press, 1961.
Rodney, W., How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Washington D.C., Howard University Press, 1974. Rotberg, Robert I., A Political History of Tropical Africa , New York, Harcourt, Brace & World
1965. Sadiq Ali, Shanti (ed.). Gandhi and South Africa , Delhi, Hind Pocket Books Pvt. Ltd. 1994.
Shubin, Vladimir, Hot Cold War: The USSR in Southern Africa, London, Pluto Press, 2008.
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Paper III: State Formation and Nation Building in Africa- I
Credits: 06
Preamble: This is one -semester course divided into 4 modules o f 12 sessions each. In addition
24 hours are allotted for student preparation under guidance of faculty for projects, seminars and
preparatory class work. The method of instruction will be lectures and seminar presentation of project work. This course aims to introduce students to the general theories of state formation and nation building. The course will cover the theories of state and nation building from both Western and non- Western perspectives. The basic course will be developed further through
advanced modules to be offered in the succeeding semester.
Module 1: Concept of Nation and Tribe
o Theories of nation building
o African nationalism, colonia l and international influences
o Tribal states and politics
Module 2: Concept of State
o Western and indigenous concepts of nation states in Africa
o Emerg ence of Eurocentric nation state
o Lack of indigenous political set ups
Module 3: Institutions and Structures
o Political institution, democratic structures, bureaucratic structure
o Economic policies and r ole of states and private sectors
Module 4 : African Unity and Cooperation
o Sub-regional organizations for state formation and nation building
o Role of organization of African Unity
References
Autesserre, Severine, Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peace
Building , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Amin, Samir, Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formation of Peripheral
Capitalism , Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1977.
Bauer, Gretchen and Tylor, Scott D., Politics in Southern Africa: State and Society in Transition ,
London, Lynne Rienner, 2005. Busia, K. A., Africa in Search of Democracy, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. Chabal, Patrick, Engel, Ulf and Gentili, Anna Maria, Is Violence Inevitable in Africa? : Theories
of Conflict and Approaches to Conflict Prevention, Leiden, Brill, 2005.
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Chazan, Naomi and Others, Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa, Boulder, Lynne
Rienner, 1999. Deegan, Heather, Africa Today: Culture, Economics, Religion, Security , London, Routledge,
2009. Deutsch, Karl W. and Faltz, Williams J. (eds.), Nation Building. New York, Atherton Press, 1963.
Diehl, Paul Francis, International Peacekeeping: Perspective on Security with a New Epilogue on
Somalia Bosnia and Cambodia, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Forde, Daryll, African World: Studies in the Cosmological Ideas and Social Values of African People , London, Oxford University Press, 1954.
Forrest, Joshua B., Sub Nationalism in Africa: Ethnicity, Alliances, and Politics , Boulder, Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2004. Fortes, Meyer and Pritchard, Evans, African Political Systems, London, Oxford University Press, 1940. Herbst, Jeffery, States and Power in Africa, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. Hulterstrom, Karolin a, Kamete, Amin Y. and Melber, Henning, Political Opposition in African
Countries: The Cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe , Uppsala, Nordiska
Afrikainstitutet, 2007. Ishikawa, Kaoru, Nation Building and Development Assistance in Africa, Houndsmills,
Macmillan Press, 1999.
Jackson, R. H. and Alan James (ed.), States in a Changing World: A Contemporary Analysis ,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. Jackson, Robert H., Quasi States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World ,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Jolly, Richard, Planning Education for African Development: Economic and Manpower Perspectives , Nairobi, East African Publishing House, 1963.
Kieh, George, Klay, Agbese and Pita Ogaba, The Military and Politics in Africa: From
Engagement to Democratic and Constitutional Control, Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2004. Markovitz, I.L., Power and Class in Africa: An Introduction to Change and Conflict in African
Politics , Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1977.
Mazrui, Ali A., Cultural Engineering and Nation Building in East Africa, Illinois, North Western
University Press, 1972.
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Migdal, Joel S., Strong Societies and Weak States, State Society, Relations and State Capabilities
in Third World , Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1988.
Nkrumah, Kwame, Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization, London, Panaf Books, 1974. Robinson, Ronald, Gallagher, John and Denny, Alice, Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism , London, The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1961.
Salih, Mohamed, African political Parties Evolution: Institutionalization and Governance ,
London, Pluto Press, 2003. Schapera, I., Government and Politics in Tribal Societies . London, C.A. Watts & Co., 1956.
Thomson, Alex, Introduction to African Politics , 3rd ed. London, Routledge, 2010.
Tidy, Michael, A History of Africa 1840- 1914, London, Hodder & Stoughton
Ltd., 1981.
Welch, Claude E. (ed.), Soldier and State in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Military
Intervention and Political Change, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1970.
Wilson, H.S., The Imperial Experience in Sub -Saharan Africa Since 1870, Minneapolis,
University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
Wohlgemuth, Lennart and Others (eds.), Institution Building and Leadership in Africa ,
Uppsala, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998.
Zartman. I. W. (ed.), Collapsed States: The Disintegration and Restoration of Legitimate
Authority, Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995.
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Paper IV: Africa in World affairs – I
Credits: 06
Preamble: This is one semester course which is divided into four modules of 12 teachings
session each. In addition 24 additional hours are added for student preparation for class work, seminars and projects. The method of instruction will be lectures. The aim of course is to introduce basic issues of Africa's international relations. This is first part of the course where historical background is provided. This part builds up foundation of course, which looks into contemporary African international relations. In the course some important historical events are discussed which have impacted deeply impacted Africa. Students are expected to develop through understanding of these historical events.
Module 1: Africa and European Powers
o Imperialism and colonialism
o Scramble for Africa
o Colonial Administrative policies
Module 2: Colonial Africa and global Situation
o Mandate System
o Pan Africa Movements
o Definition of White Supremacy and Apartheid
Module 3: Africa in post -war- period
o Trusteeship system
o Problems of de -colonisation
o Concept of Euro- Africa and neo -colonial linkages
Module 4: Africa in post - independence period
o Organisation of African Unity (OAU)
o Non-align Movement (NAM)
o United Nations
References
Albrigh t, David R., Africa and International Communism , London, Macmillan Press Ltd , 1980.
Akinrinade, Sola and Sesay, Amadu (ed.), Africa: In the Post - Cold War International System ,
London, Cassell Academi c, 1997.
Bach, Daniel. C. (ed.), Regionalisation of Africa, Oxford, James Curry Ltd., 1999. Carter, Gwendolen M. and Patrick O’Meara (ed.), African Independence: The First Twenty- Five
Years, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1985.
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Clapham, Christopher, Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival ,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Engle, Ulf and Olsen, G. R. (ed.), Africa and the North: Between Globalization and
Marginalization, London, Routledge, 2005. Falola, Toyin, Power of African Cultures , Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2008.
Giese, I manuel , Pan African Movement : A History i f Pan -Africanism in America, Europe , and
Africa , London, Taylor & Francis , 1974.
Goodspeed, S. S., Nature and Functions of International Organisations , New Yor k: Oxford
University Press, 1967.
Gruhn, Isebill V., Regionalism Reconsidered: The Economic Commission for Africa, Boulder , Westview Press, 1979.
Gutkind, P. C. W., Wallerstein, Immanuel (ed.), Political Economy of Contemporary Africa,
Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, 1985.
Hentz, James J., South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation, Bloomington, Indiana
University Press, 2005.
Hovet, Thomas, Africa in the United Nations , London, Faber & Faber, 1963.
Leonard, L. Larry, International Organisation, New York, McGraw Hill Book Co., 1951.
Manger, Lief and Assal, Munzoul, Diasporas Within and Without Africa: Dynamism, Heterogeneity, Variation , Uppsala, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2006.
Mazrui, Ali A., Africa’s International Relations: The Diplomacy of Dependence and Change ,
London, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1984. Mckay, Vernon, Africa in World Politics , New York, Harper & Row Publishers , 1963.
Mehrish, B. N., International Organization: Structure and Process , Jalandhar , Vishal
Publication, 1996.
Morgenthau, Hans J., Politics Among Nations :
The Struggle for Power and Peace , Calcutta,
Scientific Book Agency, 1966.
Nielsen , W. A., The Great Powers and the Africa, London, Pall Mall Press, 1969.
Padmore, George, Africa and World Peace , London, Frank Cass, 1972.
Ramchandani, R. R. (ed.), India and Africa, New Delhi, Radiant Publishers, 1980.
Rivkin, Arnold, Africa and West E lements of Free World Alliance , Bombay, Popular Prakashan,
1978.
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Shaw, T.M. and Heard, K.A. (ed.), Politics of Africa - Dependence and Development ,
London, Longman, 1979. Sithole, N., African Nationalism , Cape Tow n, Oxford University Press, 1968.
Thomas, Caroline and Peter Wilkin (eds.), Globalization, Human Security and the African Experience, Boulder , Lynne Rienner Publishers , 1999.
Thompson, V.B., Africa and Unity: The Evolution of Pan Africanism , London, Longman, 1969.
Tidy, Michael, Histo ry of Africa 1840- 1914, London, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1981.
Wallerstein, Immanuel, Africa, the Politics of Independence : An Interpretation of Modern
African History , New York, Vintage Books, 1961.
Willetts, Peter, Non Aligned Movement: The Origin of Third World Alliance , Bombay, Popular
Prakashan, 1978. Woodward, Peter, US Foreign Policy and the Horn of Africa, Hampshire, Ashgate publishing
Ltd, 2006. Zartman, I. W., International Relations in the New Africa, Engl ewood Cliffs, Prentice -Hall,
1966.
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SEMESTER – II
Paper I: Problems of African Economic Development and Management- II
Credits: 06
Preamble: This is one -semester course divided into 4 modules of 12 sessions each. In addition
24 hours are allotted for student preparation under guidance of faculty for projects, seminars and
preparatory class work. The method of instruction will be lectures and seminar presentation of
project work. This course aims to introduce students to the advanced knowledge of economy and development re lated problems of African countries with current implications. This course will
cover the specific aspects of African economic problems that have shaped the current economic scenario in Africa.
Module 1: Post -Cold war e ra
o Problems of African Economic Deve lopment in the Post -Cold War Period
o New part nership for African Development
Module 2: Economic g overnance and m anagement c oncerns
o Central Bank
o African Development Bank
o Managing Marketing Boards
o Foreign Exchange Management
Module 3: African states and e conomic d evelopment
o Trade and Multinational Corporations
o Regional organizations
o Globalization, liberalization and Neo- liberalism
Module 4: Globalizing economy
o Synergies with Asia: C ontextualizing India and China
o Trade and Investment Agreement with USA and the European Union
References
Adebayo, Adedeji, Africa Within the World : beyond Dispossession and Dependence , London,
Zed Books, 1993. Adebayo, Adedeji, Indigenization of African Economies , New York, African Publishing
Company, 1981. Adebayo, Adedeji, Towards a Dynamic African Economy, Selected Speeches and Lectures 1975-
1986, London, Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1989. Adoyada, O., Issues in the Development of Tropical Africa , Ibadan, Ibadan University Press,
1976.
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Ake, Claude, Political Economy of Africa , Harlow, Longman 1981.
Akonor, Kwame, African Economic Institutions , London, Routledge, 2009.
Arrigni, Giovanni and Saul, John S., Essays on the Political Economy of Africa, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1973. Bates, R. H., Markets and States in Tropic al Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies ,
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1981.
Beckman, Björn and Adeoti, Gbemisola (ed.), Intellectuals and African Development, Pretension
and Resistance in African Politics , London, Zed Books, 2006.
Berg, Robert and Whitaker, J. S. (eds.), Strategies for African Development , Berkeley,
University of California Press, 1986.
Bigsten, Arne, Bereket, Kebede and Abebe Shimeles (eds.), Poverty, Income Distribution and Labour Markets in Ethiopia , Uppsala, Nordiska Afrikaininstutet, 2005.
Dansereau, Suzanne, Zamponi, Mario and Melber, Henning (eds.), Zimbabwe the Political Economy of Decline , Uppsala, Nordic Africa Institute, 2005.
Fieldhouse, D. K., Black Africa 1945- 1980: Economic Decolonization & Arrested
Development
London, Unwin Hyman, 1986.
Gilbert, Erik, Dhows and Colonial Economy in Zanzibar 1860- 1970, Oxford, James Currey
,
2005. Gulhati, Ravi, The Making of Economic Policy in Africa, Washington D.C., World Bank, 1990. Gutkind, P. C. W. (ed.), Unemployment in Africa, Montreal, McGill University Centre for
Development Area Studies, 1975. Harris, R. (ed.), The Political Economy of Africa , Cambridge, Schenkman Publication Co., 1975.
Hayer, Judita and Others (eds.), Rural De velopment in Tropical Africa , London, Macmillan
Press Ltd., 1981. Hentz, James J., South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005.
Kabbaj, Omar, The Challenge of African Development , Oxford, Oxford Univers ity Press, 2003.
Kamarch, A. M., The Economies of African Development , New York, Praeger Publishers, 1971.
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Kempe, R. H. and Bornwell, C.C. (eds.), Corruption and Development in Africa, Hounds mills,
Macmillan Press, 2000.
Krumm, K. L., The External Debt of Sub- Saharan Africa Origins, Magnitude and Implication
For Action , Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1985.
La-Anyane, S., Economics of Agricultural Development in Tropical Africa, Chichester, John
Wiky & Sons, 1985. Lancaster, Carol, Aid to Afr ica, Chicago, Century foundation book, 1999.
Legum, Colin, Africa in the 1980s: A Continent in Crisis , New York, McGraw- Hill, 1979.
Little, Peter D., Somalia: Economy without State , Oxford, James Currey, 2003.
Livingstone, I and Goodwill, A., Economic & Development: An Introduction , Nairobi, Oxford
University Press, 1974.
Meier, Gerald M. and Steel Williams F. (eds.), Industrial Adjustment in Sub- Saharan Africa,
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989. Melber, Henning, Governance and State Del ivery in Southern Africa: Examples from Botswana,
Namibia and Zimbabwe , Uppsala, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007.
Mkandawire, Thandika (ed.), African Voices on Structural Adjustment , Trenton, Africa World
Press, 2003.
Mohan, Giles and Tunde, Za ck-Williams, The Politics of Transition in Africa , Oxford, James
Currey, 2004.
Moss, Todd J., African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors,
Boulder , Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2007.
Nnadorie, Emmanuel (ed.), African Economic Development , Amsterdam , Academic Press
International Publisher, 2003.
O’manique, Colleen, Neo-Liberalism and Aids Crisis in Sub- Saharan Africa, Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
OAU, Africa's Priority Prog ramme for Economic Recovery (1986 -1990) ,
Addis Ababa,
Organization of African Unity, 1985. OAU, Lagos Plan of Action for Economic Development of Africa (1980- 2000) ,
Switzerland, International Institute of Labour Studies, 1982.
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OAU, The African Economic Community: The Destiny of a Continent , Switzerland, International
Institute of Labour Studies, 1991.
Ponte, Stefano, Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: How Policy Reforms Affects Rural Livelihoods in Africa, Oxford, James Currey, 2004. Rimmer, D. (ed.), Rural Transformation in Tropical Africa, London, Belhaven Press, 1988. Sadiq Ali, Shanti and Gupta, A. (eds.), Africa Dimension of the Economic Crisis: An Analysis of the Problem and Development , New York, Sterling Publishers Ltd., 1987.
Seidman, A., Planning for Development in Sub- Saharan Africa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Publishing House, 1974. Singh, H., The Economy of Africa, New Delhi, Kalinga Publications, 1992. Singh, Harjinder, Africa a n Economic and Political Study , Delhi, UDH Publishers, 1985.
Somone, Abdoumalio, Urban Africa: Changing Contours of the Survival in the City , Dakar,
CODESRIA Books, 2005. Kayizzi -Mugerwa, Steve, The African Economy , London, Routledge, 1998.
Kayizzi -Mugerwa, Steve, Reforming Africa’s Institution s: Ownership, Incentives, and
Capabilities , Tokyo, United Nations University Press, 2003.
Taku, Thomas A., Framework for Industrialization in Africa , Westport, Praeger, 1999.
The World Bank, Sub -Saharan Africa from Crisis to Sustainable Growth: A Long Te rm
Perspective Study, Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1989.
The World Bank, Towards Sustainable Development in Sub- Saharan Africa: A Joint Programme
of Action , Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1984.
UNECA, African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustm ent Programme for Socio -
Economic Recovery and Transformation, Addis Ababa, UNECA, 1981./ 1991 Vyas, V.S. and Casley, D., Stimulating Agricultural Growth and Rural Development in Sub -
Saharan Africa, Washington D. C., World Bank, 1988. Wood, Adrian (ed.), Strategies for Sustainability – Africa , London, Earthscan Publishers, 1997.
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Paper II: History of Africa- II
Credits: 06
Preamble: This is one -semester course divided into four modules each. In addition 24 hours are
allocated for student - teacher interaction for helping the students with preparatory work for class,
seminar and project preparation. This Course aims to introduce student s to the history of Africa
in the post World War II period when the countries of Africa gained political independence.
Module 1: World War II and its i mpact on Africa
o Establishment of United Nations and principle of Trusteeship
o United Nations and its contribution to the political liberation of Africa
Module 2: National liberation movements in Africa
o Francophone Africa
o Anglophone Africa
o Lusophone Africa
Module 3: Decolonisation of Africa and Transfer of power
o Francophone Africa
o Anglophone Africa
o Lusophone Africa
o South Africa under Apartheid regime and the post 1994
Module 4 : India -Africa relations in the colonial period
o Trading contacts and indentured labour
o Voluntary immigration and Asian settlements
o Racial friction and its impact in the post independence phase
o Role of Asian immigrants in African national development
References
Addison, Tony, (ed.) From Conflict to Recovery in Africa , Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2003.
Basil, Davidson, Africa in Modern History : the Search for a New S ociety , London, Allen Lane,
1978. Biswas, A., India- Kenya, Political and Economic Relations , Delhi, Kanishka Publishing House ,
1992.
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Blyden, E. W., Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race , Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
Press, 1967.
Collins, Robert O., The Partition of Africa : Illusion or N ecessity? New York, John Wiley &
Sons, 1969.
Cooper, J., The Lost Continent: or, Slavery and the Slave -Trade in Africa 1875, with
Observations on t he Asiatic Slave -Trade Carried on Under the Name of Labour Traffic, and
Some other Subjects , Essex , Frank Cass Co. Ltd, 1968.
Coupland, R., The Exploitation of East Africa, 1856- 1890: The Slave Trade and the Scramble
London, Faber & Faber, Ltd, 1939.
Gann, L. H. and Duigan, Peter, The Burden of Empire: An Appraisal of Western Colonialism in
Africa South of the Sahara, New York, F.A. Praeger, 1967.
Gann, L. H. and Duignan, Peter, Colonialism in Africa: 1870- 1960, 5 vols, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Ghai, D haram . (ed), Portrait of a Minority: Asians in East Africa , Nairobi, Oxford University
Press, 1965.
Gregory, R., India and East Africa: A History of Race Relations within t he British Empire, 1890-
1939, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971.
Leonard, Woolf, Empire and Commerce in Africa: A Study of Economic Imperialism, London,
George Allen & Unwin, 1968.
Lovejoy, P. E., Transformation in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa , Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Lugard, F. J. D., The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, Essex
, Frank Cass Co. Ltd ,
1965.
Mangat, J. S., A History of the Asians in East Africa: 1886 to 1945, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 1969.
Mazrui, Ali A., The African Condition: a P olitical D iagnosis , Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1980.
Museveni, Youweni, Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in
Uganda, London, Macmillan Education, 1997.
Ogude, James and Nyairo, Joyce, Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and
Literature in East Africa , Trenton, Africa World Press, 2007.
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Okumu, Washington A. J., African Renaissance: History Significance and Strategy , Trenton ,
Africa World Press Inc, 2002.
Oliver, Ronald (2nd ed.), The Missionary Factor in East Africa , London, Longman Group Ltd.,
1965. Oliver, Ronals and Fage, J. D. (eds.), The Cambridge History of Africa : From c. 1940 to 1975
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Oucho, John O ., Undercurrents of Ethnic Conflict in Kenya, Leiden, Bri ll Academic Publishers,
2002. Ramchandani, R. R. (ed.), India -Africa Relations , Vol. I and II, New Delhi, Kalinga Publication,
1990. Robinson, Ronald and Callagher, John, Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism , London, Macmillan Press, 1961.
Rodney, W., How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Washington D.C., Howard University Press, 1974. Rotberg, Robert I., A Political History of Tropical Africa , New York, Harcourt, Brace & World
1965. Sadiq Ali, Shanti (ed.). Gandhi and South Afri ca, Delhi, Hind Pocket Books Pvt. Ltd. 1994.
Shubin, Vladimir, Hot Cold War: The USSR in Southern Africa, London, Pluto Press, 2008.
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Paper III: State Formation and Nation Building in Africa- II
Credits: 06
Preamble: This is one -semester course divided into 4 modules of 12 sessions each. In addition
24 hours are allotted for student preparation under guidance of faculty for projects, seminars and
preparatory class work. The method of instruction will be lectures and seminar pr esentation of
project work. This course aims to introduce students to the problems of nation building and state formation that African states are confronting.
Module 1: Nation State Problematique
o Quasi states
o Inter-state and intra -state ethni c conflicts
o Collapsed and failed states
Module 2 : Political Impact
o Authoritarianism and consciencism
o Lack of good governance and democratic institutions
Module 3 : Economic Impact
o Underdevelopment, dependency, neo- colonial linkages
o Lack of human resource development
Module 4 : Social Impact
o Lack of education, gender inequality
o Divided societies, rise of ethnic aspirations
References
Autesserre, Severine, Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peace
Building , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Amin, Samir, Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formation of Peripheral
Capitalism , Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1977.
Bauer, Gretchen and Tylor, Scott D., Politics in Southern Africa: State and Society in Transition ,
London, Lynne Rienner, 2005. Busia, K. A., Africa in Search of Democracy, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. Chabal, Patrick, Engel, Ulf and Gentili, Anna Maria, Is Violence Inevitable in Africa? : Theories
of Conflict and Approaches to Conf lict Prevention, Leiden, Brill, 2005.
Chazan, Naomi and Others, Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa, Boulder, Lynne Rienner, 1999.
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Deegan, Heather, Africa Today: Culture, Economics, Religion, Security , London, Routledge,
2009.
Deutsch, Karl W. and Faltz, Williams J. (eds.), Nation Building. New York, Atherton Press,
1963.
Diehl, Paul Francis, International Peacekeeping: Perspective on Security with a New Epilogue on
Somalia Bosnia and Cambodia, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Forde, Daryll, African World: Studies in the Cosmological Ideas and Social Values of African People , London, Oxford University Press, 1954.
Forrest, Joshua B., Sub Nationalism in Africa: Ethnicity, Alliances, and Politics , Boulder, Lynne
Rienner Publisher s, 2004.
Fortes, Meyer and Pritchard, Evans, African Political Systems, London, Oxford University Press,
1940.
Herbst, Jeffery, States and Power in Africa, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000.
Hulterstrom, Karolina, Kamete, Amin Y. and Melber, Henning, Political Opposition in African
Countries: The Cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe , Uppsala, Nordiska
Afrikainstitutet, 2007.
Ishikawa, Kaoru, Nation Building and Development Assistance in Africa , Houndsmills,
Macmillan Press, 1999.
Jackson, R. H. and Alan James (ed.), States in a Changing World: A Contemporary Analysis ,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993.
Jackson, Robert H., Quasi States: Sovereignty, International Relati ons and the Third World,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Jolly, Richard, Planning Education for African Development: Economic and Manpower
Perspectives , Nairobi, East African Publishing House, 1963.
Kieh, George, Klay, Agbe se and Pita Ogaba, The Military and Politics in Africa: From
Engagement to Democratic and Constitutional Control, Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2004. Markovitz, I.L., Power and Class in Africa: An Introduction to Change and Conflict in African
Politics , Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1977.
Mazrui, Ali A., Cultural Engineering and Nation Building in East Africa, Illinois, North Western
University Press, 1972.
Migdal, Joel S., Strong Societies and Weak States, State Society, Relations and State Capabilities
in Third World , Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1988.
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Nkrumah, Kwame, Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization, London, Panaf
Books, 1974. Robinson, Ronald, Gallagher, John and Denny, Alice, Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism , London, The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1961.
Salih, Mohamed, African political Parties Evolution: Institutionalization and Governance ,
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Thomson, Alex, Introduction to African Politics , 3rd ed. London, Routledge, 2010.
Tidy, Michael, A History of Africa 1840- 1914, London, Hodder & Stoughton
Ltd., 1981.
Welch, Claude E. (ed.), Soldier and State in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Military
Intervention and Political Change, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1970.
Wilson, H.S., The Imperial Experience in Sub -Saharan Africa Since 1870, Minneapolis,
University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
Wohlgemuth, Lennart and Others (eds.), Institution Building and Leadership in Africa ,
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Paper IV: Africa in World affairs – II
Credits: 06
Preamble : This is one semester course which is divided into four modules of 12 teachings
session each. In addition 24 additional hours are added for student preparation for class work, seminars and projects. The method of instruction will be lectures. The second part of 'Africa in world Affairs' focuses on contemporary African international affairs. This semester draws from historical background taught in the first semester. The focus of the course is to introduce students to Africa's international relations with major institutions like the United Nations and with major powers like the United States and countries of Europe. It further focuses on Africa's relations with emerging nations with special focus on India.
Module 1: Africa in 1990s
o Globalisation and interdependence
o Regional and sub regional organizations
o African Union (AU) and African Economic Commission
o New Partnership for African Development
Module 2: Major Powers and Africa
o The United States
o Britain
o France
Module 3: Emerging Economies and Africa
o Brazil
o Russia
o China
Module 4: India's Relation with Africa
o Historical relations
o Political and Diplomatic linkages
o Trade and commerce with Africa
o Investments in Africa
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Albrigh t, David R., Africa and International Communism , London, Macmillan Press Ltd , 1980.
Akinrinade, Sola and Sesay, Amadu (ed.), Africa: In the Post - Cold War International System ,
London, Cassell Academi c, 1997.
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Bach, Daniel. C. (ed.), Regionalisation of Africa, Oxford, James Curry Ltd., 1999. Carter, Gwendolen M. and Patrick O’Meara (ed.), African Independence: The First Twenty- Five
Years, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1985. Clapham, Christopher, Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival ,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Engle, Ulf and Olsen, G. R. (ed.), Africa and the North: Between Globalization and
Marginalization, London, Routledge, 2005. Falola, Toyin, Power of African Cultures , Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2008.
Giese, I manuel , Pan African Movement : A History i f Pan -Africanism in America, Europe , and
Africa , London, Taylor & Francis , 1974.
Goodspeed, S. S., Nature and Functions of International Organisations , New Yor k: Oxford
University Press, 1967.
Gruhn, Isebill V., Regionalism Reconsidered: The Economic Commission for Africa, Boulder , Westview Press, 1979.
Gutkind, P. C. W., Wallerstein, Imman uel (ed.), Political Economy of Contemporary Africa,
Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, 1985.
Hentz, James J., South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation, Bloomington, Indiana
University Press, 2005.
Hovet, Thomas, Africa in the United Nations , London, Faber & Faber, 1963.
Leonard, L. Larry, International Organisation, New York, McGraw Hill Book Co., 1951.
Manger, Lief and Assal, Munzoul, Diasporas Within and Without Africa: Dynamism, Heterogeneity, Variation , Uppsala, Nordiska Afrikainstitute t, 2006.
Mazrui, Ali A., Africa’s International Relations: The Diplomacy of Dependence and Change ,
London, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1984. Mckay, Vernon, Africa in World Politics , New York, Harper & Row Publishers , 1963.
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Publication, 1996.
Morgenthau, Hans J., Politics Among Nations :
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Nielsen , W. A., The Great Powers and the Africa , London, Pall Mall Press, 1969.
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Padmore, George, Africa and World Peace , London, Frank Cass, 1972.
Ramchandani, R. R. (ed.), India and Africa, New Delhi, Radiant Publishers, 1980.
Rivkin, Arnold, Africa and West Elements of Free World Alliance , Bombay, Popular Prakashan,
1978. Shaw, T.M. and Heard, K.A. (ed.), Politics of Africa - Dependence and Development ,
London, Longman, 1979. Sithole, N., African Nationalism , Cape Tow n, Oxford University Press, 1968.
Thomas, Caroline and Peter Wilk in (eds.), Globalization, Human Security and the African
Experience, Boulder , Lynne Rienner Publishers , 1999.
Thompson, V.B., Africa and Unity: The Evolution of Pan Africanism , London, Longman, 1969.
Tidy, Michael, History of Africa 1840- 1914, London, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1981.
Wallerstein, Immanuel, Africa, the Politics of Independence : An Interpretation of Modern
African History , New York, Vintage Books, 1961.
Willetts, Peter, Non Aligned Movement: The Origin of Third World Alliance , Bombay, Popul ar
Prakashan, 1978.
Woodward, Peter, US Foreign Policy and the Horn of Africa, Hampshire, Ashgate publishing
Ltd, 2006. Zartman, I. W., International Relations in the New Africa, Engl ewood Cliffs, Prentice -Hall,
1966.
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