African History

African History Surveys

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History of South Africa

Modern South Africa is still a young democracy coming to terms with the legacies of centuries of turmoil sparked by enslavement, colonialism, rapid industrialization, segregation, apartheid, and the struggle for equal rights. The current iteration of the course culminates in the “Collapse of Apartheid” Reacting to the Past game project where students work to reach a consensus for a new, post-apartheid constitution for South Africa.

Between 2012 and 2017, students in this course participated in “virtual internships” with the non-profit South African History Online(SAHO). SAHO is a non-profit organization with a mission to promote history and the arts and to address the inequalities in South African written history. SAHO involves heritage and academic institutions as well as ordinary South Africans in rewriting South African history and in that way contribute to reconciliation, the building of a common humanity and a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic society.