Course Description & Objectives:
- Introduction: the slave trade connection
- The War of the Barbary Coast
- The Foundation of Liberia
- American business interests in Western and Eastern Africa before the Civil War (1860s)
- The United States in the 1860s/85 Berlin conference on Africa
- African – American interests in Africa – the Idea of Pan Africanism
- The Mandate System – the American Involvement
- The United States and the Ethiopian Crisis
- The Cold War and US reaction to African nationalism
- The Kennedy Appeal to Africa: peace corps, the student airlifts
- US Policies towards Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the former Portuguese colonies
- US Perceptions of Mau Mau in Kenya
- US Policy toward South Africa
- US Policies towards selected Post-colonial African States including Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania
- US Policy on Foreign Aid in Africa
- Overall assessment of US – Africa relations
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