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HIS 426 Nationalism and Nation Building in Africa

400 levelArts & Humanities10 topics

HIS 426 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Concepts of nationalism and nation building
  2. Roots of African nationalism before 1914
  3. Pan-Africanism and its influence
  4. The impact of the World Wars on nationalism
  5. Growth of nationalist movements and parties
  6. Strategies of decolonisation in Africa
  7. Achievement of independence across regions
  8. Post-independence nationalism and unity
  9. Challenges of nation building in Africa
  10. Ethnicity, integration and national identity

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Concepts of nationalism and nation building

This topic introduces the meanings of nationalism and nation building, the ideas that distinguish them, and the relationship between national identity, political loyalty, and state development. For examination purposes, you must master the definitions, major features, forms, and goals of nationalism and nation building, because many questions test whether you can separate the two concepts and explain how they…

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