University of the West Indies

This course examines the major problems and issues, both historiographical and historical, relating to women in 20th century Africa, including focusing on the changing status of women in Africa within the context of the efforts to extend capitalism and to democratize society across the continent. The course covers the following themes: the discourse on the impact of the emergence and operation of modern nation-states upon the status of African women; the pervasive role of traditional, Islamic and Western influences in African historical evolution tradition.

The course introduces the economic analytical tools or the key economic principles to comprehend and analyze natural resource and environmental issues including natural resource degradation, pollution, climate change and natural disasters, and unsustainable development. It critically examines the most pressing natural resource and environmental exploitation problems in the Caribbean. Finally, this course examines case studies to illustrate the usefulness of the theoretical approach.

This course examines the historical developments in the African Continent under the formal rule of different European powers; the emergence and development of the 'nationalist' phenomenon before and after the First World War; decolonization and independence; problems of nation building; attempts at continent-wide and regional collaborations.