HIST 090H. Africans Explore/Africa Explored

This course deals with migration and travel within the African continent and to and from the continent. Using archival documents, archeological evidence, fiction, travel narratives, and visual materials, students will trace the migrations of Bantu-speaking peoples, travels of Africans to Europe and Asia over the last millennium, and journeys both forced and voluntary within the African diaspora. The class will compare these to records of journeys to regions of Africa by travellers like Ibn Battuta, Zheng He, Mungo Park, Richard Burton, Mary Kingsley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Redmond O'Hanlon, as well as migrations and diasporas to Africa. Students will pursue a research project for their major work in the course.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for BLST, INTP
Catalog chapter: History  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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