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| Semester | fall semester 2023 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Ernest Sewordor (ernest.sewordor@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | If current population growth rates continue, statisticians predict that Africa’s population will double by 2050, in approximately three decades' time, and make the continent’s population the most youthful worldwide. Particularly, the number of urban residents will rise almost threefold. These potential shifts in Africa’s urban demographic patterns have prompted policymakers, planners, and architects on the continent to think about how urban governance/planning will be affected and rethink present models for managing urban growth. Before looking into the future of African cities, this course will first examine how the continent’s urban pasts have shaped its present and explore how Africa’s pre-/de-colonial urban histories could offer perspectives for facing the challenges of future cities. |
| Learning objectives | (a) To develop a historically informed understanding of current urban experiences in Africa (b) To reflect on how urban research relates to ongoing processes of city-making/-life in Africa (c) To use Africa as a lens to question and rethink urban theories rooted in global northern epistemologies from the perspectives of global southern urbanism (d) To independently assess, interpret, and present urban historical scholarship about Africa |
| Bibliography | Selected Bibliography 1. Hart, Jennifer. Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra. Indiana University Press, 2023. 2. Pieterse, Edgar. City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development. University of Cape Town Press, 2008. 3. Simone, AbdouMaliq. For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Lives in Four Cities. Duke University Press, 2004. 4. Yiftachel, Oren and Mammon, Nisa (eds). TheorISE: Debating the Southeastern Turn in Urban Theories. Africa Centre for Cities, 2022. 5. Adelusi-Adeluyi, Ademide. Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City. Ohio University Press, 2023. |
| Admission requirements | Für Studierende des BSF Geschichte im Grundstudium mit abgeschlossenem Einführungskurs Geschichte. Teilnahme an der ersten Sitzung ist obligatorisch. Die Teilnehmer:innenzahl ist auf 25 beschränkt. Bei Überbelegung werden Studierende des BSF Geschichte, die noch kein Proseminar in dem Modul absolviert haben, bevorzugt zugelassen. |
| Course application | Belegung via Mona. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Monday | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 18.09.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 25.09.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 02.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 09.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 16.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 23.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 30.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 06.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 3 |
| Monday 13.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 20.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 27.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 04.12.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 11.12.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Monday 18.12.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
| Modules |
Modul: Basis Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor's degree subject: History) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Geschichte |