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Course: Area of Regions: Sub-Saharan Africa

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Course title Area of Regions: Sub-Saharan Africa
Course code KSKA/TEAF
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Horáková Hana, doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Postcolonial period as a dynamic reality full of contrasts. The myth of African empires and wealth, myth of the dark continent. Diversity of and conflicts among the centralised systems as well as non-centralised groups. Resistance against and collaboration with the colonial aggression. Direct and non-direct government in the colonies. The systems of government (British, French, Belgian, Portuguese and Italian). Colonial situation (Balandier). African chieftancy: relic or reality, which needs to be considered? Industry and job migration as a result of economic penetration into the colonies. Colonial cities: continuity of ethnic fragmentation as well as new social structures. Relationship between the Africans and Europeans. African nationalistic and political independence movements. Independent state: African reaction to forced political models (neo-patriomonialism, clientelism, violence). Democracy and dictatorship in Africa. The problem of one-party government, populism, corporatism. Comparison with post-communist Europe and post-Soviet Eurasia. African postcolonial urbanisation: ties with the country, role of kinship, shantytowns. African countryside. Transformation of tradition. Role of religion in African societies. Tribalism and modern state. Search for compromise in government. Neo-colonialism. Present African crisis (HIV/AIDS, poverty, genocide, ethnocide, war conflicts) and its solutions.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes

The successful passing of this subject will enable the students to better understand socio-cultural, political and economic problems of the present sub-Saharan Africa.
Prerequisites
Not specified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination, Home assignment evaluation, Discussion

Active participation in the lectures. Type of assessment: exam, written test or oral exam where necessary. Attendance at the lectures and reading of required texts
Recommended literature
  • BAYART, J.F., ELLIS, S., HIBOU, B. The Criminalization of the State in Africa. Oxford: OUP, 1999.
  • HORÁKOVÁ, H. Národ, kultura a etnicita v postapartheidní Jižní Africe. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 2007.
  • CHABAL, P. a DALOZ, J.- P. Africa Works. London: International African Institute in association with James Currey. Oxford, 1999.
  • KROPÁČEK, L. a SKALNÍK, P. (eds.). Africa 2000. Forty Years of African Studies in Prague. Prague: Set out, 2001.
  • Machalík, S. a Brebera, D. Materiály z konzultací. Ústní n.Labem: Dryada, 2006.
  • ONDERKA, P. (ed.). Afrika: dvojznačné jaro 1994. Praha: SPA, 2004.
  • SKALNÍK, P. (ed.). Politická kultura: antropologie, sociologie, politologie. Praha: Set out, 2004.


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