Course Description & Objectives:
- The Establishment of Colonial Administration
- Monetization of Colonial economies
- The Development of Transportation Pattern
- Telecommunication System
- The Missionary Factor
- Colonial and Islamic education systems up to 1945
- Exploitation of Minerals Resources
- ‘Cash-crops’ Production (This will include a discussion on the Vent-for-surplus model).
- Marketing Boards and Agricultural Production
- Industrialization in the Colonial Era
- Economic Underdevelopment and Dependency
- Pan-Africanism and its influence on the rise of Nationalist movement
- European and Islamic education system since 1946
- The Decolonization Process
- Import substitution/Industrialization – problems/prospects
- Single Party Regimes