UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
FACULTY OF ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAELOGY
THG 401: COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN IMPERIALISM AND
NATIONALISM IN AFRICA AND OTHER THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
COURSE OUTLINE
LECTURER: P. NGESA
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is a course for senior undergraduate students of history, who are expected to
grapple with the various theories of imperialism and nationalism in their modern
manifestations. Students will be required therefore, to familiarize with the various
sources and arguments of such theories, which calls upon them to read widely. With the
aid of case studies, students will be expected to show an understanding of the theories
by explaining and comparing and contrasting various aspects of imperialism and
nationalism in Africa and other third world countries.
The course will be divided into two parts;
l) Imperialism
The following areas will be covered.
a) Economic theories of imperialism
b) Non-economic theories of imperialism
c) Third world ideas on imperialism
ll) Case Studies of Imperialism in Africa and other third world countries
These will involve the study of one country/region in Africa and another country/region from
either Asia or Latin America.
lll) Nationalism
a) Theories of nationalism
b) Types of nationalism
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c) Case studies of nationalism will be picked from
i) region(s) in Africa and;
ii) an area in either Latin America, Asia or the Middle East.
Readings
Theories of Imperialism
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Delhi: Oxford University Press (Includes Paul Baran’s, “On the Political Economy of
Backwardness”).
Anderson, Benedict (2006). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread
of Nationalism, New York, Anderson.
Cohen, Benjamin (1974). The Question of Imperialism: The Political Economy of
Dominance and Dependence. London, Macmillan.
Cessaire, Aime (2001). Discourses on Colonialism, New York. Monthly Review Press.
Fieldhouse D.K. (1967)The Theory of Capitalist Imperialism. N.Y: Barnes and Noble.
Fanon, Franz (2005). The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press.
Fanon, Franz (2008). Black Skins, White Masks. New York: Grove Press.
Fanon, Franz (1965). A Dying Colonialism.
Hobson, J. A. (1983). Imperialism: A Study. London: Allen and Urwin.
Kemp, T. (1967.). Theories of Imperialism. London: Dobson.
Lenin, V.I.( 1975). Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. Peking, Foreign
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Luxemburg, R.(1963). The Accumulation of Capital. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Magdoff, Harry (1978). Imperialism from the Colonial Age to the Present. New York and
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Nabundere, Dan(1997)). The Political Economy of Imperialism. Dares-Salaam: Tanzania
Publishing House.
Nabudere D.W. (1979). Essays on the Theory and Practice of Imperialism: Dar-es-Salaam:
Tanzania Publishing House.
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Nkrumah, Kwame (1965). Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. Panaf Books.
Ogot, B.A. (2008). Africa and the Caribbean. Kisumu: Anyange Press.
Owen, R. (1967). Theories of Imperialism. London: Dobson.
Owen, Robert B. (1972). Studies in the Theory of Imperialism, London, Longman.
Owen, R., and Suitcliffe, B., (eds.)( 1972). Studies in the Theory of Imperialism. London:
Longman,.
Robinson, Ronald Edward, Gallagher, John and Denny, Alice (1968). Africa and the
Victorians: The Climax of Imperialism, Anchor Books.
Rodney, W. (1989). How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Nairobi: East African
Educational Publishers.
Samir, Amini, (1974). Accumulation on a World Scale. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Sartre, Jean- Paul (2006). Colonialism and Neo-colonialism, London and New York,
Routledge.
Thornton, A.P. (1965). Doctrines of Imperialism. New York: Wiley.
Thornton. A. P. (1965). Theories of Imperialism, Wiley.
Imperialism in Africa
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Anell, Lars, and Nygren, Birgitta,(1980).The Developing Countries and the World
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Anene, J.C., and Brown, G.N. (Eds.). Africa in the 19th Century. Ibadan: Ibadan University
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Anstey R. (1975) The Atlantic Slave Trade and the British Abolition,
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Aseka, E.M. (1996). Africa in the 21st Century. Eldoret: Zapt Chancery.
Balten, Thomas Reginald (1967), Tropical Africa in World History, London, Oxford
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Beffs, R.G. (ed.) (1966). The Scramble. Massachusetts: Health.
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Cape Zak (2012). Divided World Divided Class, Kersplebedeb.
Cessaire, Aime (2001). Discourses on Colonialism, New York. Monthly Review Press.
Chamberlin, M.E. (1974). The Scramble for Africa. London: Longman..
Clausen, Edwin (1989). Roads to Freedom: The Struggle Against Dependence in the
Developing World, Aldeshot, (Hants): Avebury.
Curtin, Phillip (Ed.) (1997). Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era
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Davison, B. (1965). Black Mother; The African Slave Trade: London: Longman
Dewey, Clive and Hopkins, A.G. (eds.) (1978). The Imperial Impact: Studies in the
Economic History of Africa and India. London, University of London Press. (Includes C.C.
Wrigley, “New-Mercantile Policies and the New Imperialism”)
Easterly, William (2007). The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest
have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Fanon, Franz (2005). The Wretched of the Earth, New York, Grove Press.
Fanon, Franz (2008). Black Skins, White Masks, New York, Grove Press.
Fanon, Franz (1965). A Dying Colonialism. New York: Grove Press
Fyfe C., “West African Trade, AD 1000 – 1800” in J. F. Ade Ajayi, Ian Espie and K.O. Dike
(1969). A Thousand years of West African History
Gilbert, Erik T. and Reynolds, Jonathan T. (ed.) (2011) Africa in World History, Pearson.
Guest, Robert (2004), The Shackled Continent, Basingstoke, Oxford, Smithsonian Books.
Hallet, Robin (1965). The Penetration of Africa. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Hellen, T & Robert, J. (2010). Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism
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Hopkins, A., (1973). An Economic History of West Africa. Columbia: Colombia
University.
Illiffe, John (1987), The African Poor, A History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Inikori J.E. “Measuring the Atlantic slave trade: An Assessment of Curtin and
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Kenyandago, Peter (2002), Marginalized Africa: An International Perspective, Nairobi,
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Lindsay, A. Lisa (2007). Captives as Commodities: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
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Manning, P. (1988) Francophone Sub-Sahara Africa [Link]: Cambridge
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Maathai, Wangari (undated), The Challenge for Africa, London, Arrow Books.
Meredith, Martin (2011). The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since
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Moyo, Dambisa (2009). Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and Why There Is a Better Way
for Africa, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Moyo, Dambisa (2011). How the West Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark
Choices Ahead, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Munro, J. Forbes (1981). Africa and the International Economy, London,
Northrup, David (2011). The Atlantic Slave Trade, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Okoth, Assa (2006). A History of Africa. Vol I, Nairobi, EAEP.
Onwuku. Dike (1986). Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta 1830-1885. London:
Macmillan..
Riddell, Roger, (2008). Does Aid Really Work? New York, Oxford University Press.
Rhodes, R.I. (Ed.) (1970). Imperialism and Underdevelopment. New York: Monthly
Review Press.
Rodney, W. (1989). How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Nairobi: East African
Educational Publishers.
Rothstein, R. L. (1977). The weak in the World of the Strong: The Developing Countries in
the International System. Columbia University Press.
Samir, Amin (1978). Accumulation on a World Scale: Branch Line
Sartre, Jean- Paul (2006). Colonialism and Neo-colonialism, London and New York,
Routledge.
Servilla-Casas, E. (Ed.) (1977). Western Expansion and Indigenous Peoples. Hague:
Mouton.
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Shillington, Kevin (1995). History of Africa. London: Macmillan Education Ltd.
Suret-Canale, Jean (1964). French Colonialism in Tropical Africa, 1900 – 1945. London:
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Tussie, Diana and Glover David,(1993).The Developing Countries in World Trade,
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Imperialism in India
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Bayly C. A. (1998). Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British
Expansionism, 1770-1870. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
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Conflict and Roots of Indian Nationalism; Rulers Townsmen and Bazaars; Origins of Nationality
in South East Asia. Oxford University Press.
Dewey, Clive and Hopkins A.G. (eds.) (1978) The Imperial Impact, Studies in the Economic
History of Africa and India. London: The Athlone Press.
Dodwell, H. (Ed.) (1968). The Cambridge History of India, Vol. 5. New Delhi: S. Chand and Co.
Dreze, Jean and Sen, Amartya (2013). Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions, New Jersey,
Princeton University Press.
Dutt, Ramesh (1956). The Economic History of India under Early British Rule. London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul,.
Jackson, Barbara Ward (1960.) Indian and the West. London: Hamilton.
James, Lawrence (1994). The Rise and Fall of the British Empire. New York: St Martin’s Press
Levine, Philipe (2007). The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset. Harlow: Pearson Education
Limited.
Loomba A. (1998). Colonialism and post-colonialism. London and New York: Routledge.
Low, D.A. (1913). Lion Rampant: London, Frank Cass
Maclean, Kama (2015). A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and
Text. Oxford University Press.
McKinsey, and Co. (2013). Reimaging India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower, N
Memmi, Albert (2006). Decolonization and the Decolonized, University of Minnesota Press ew
York, Simon and Schuster.
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Majumdar, R.C. and Chopra, P.N. (1979). Main Currents in Indian History. New Delhi: Sterling
Publishers, 1979.
Majumdar, R.C., Raichaudhuri, H.C., and Kalikinkar, Datta (1967). An Advanced History of India.
London, Macmillan.
Palmer, R.R., and Colton, Joel (. 1995). An History of the Modern World. New York: McGraw Hill
Inc.
Ragvan, G.N.S. (1983) Introducing India New Delhi, Indian Council for Cultural Relation.
Rothstein, R. L. (1977). The weak in the World of the Strong: The Developing Countries in the
International System. Columbia University Press.
Seema, A. (2008). The Eighteenth Century in India. London: Oxford University Press.
Sofri, Giani (2011). Gandhi and India. New York: Interlink Books.
Spear, T.G.P. (1952). Indian, Pakistan and the West. London, Oxford University Press.
Tarling, Nicholas, (2002). South East Asia: A Modern History. Oxford University Press.
Tarling, Nicholas, (2000). The Cambridge History of South East Asia Vol 2, Cambridge University
Press.
Tinker, Hugh (1967). India and Pakistan: A Political Analysis. London, Pall Mall Press.
Tussie, Diana and Glover David,(1993).The Developing Countries in World Trade, Boulder
Co.,LynneRienner.
Wolpert, S. (2008). A New History of India. Oxford University Press
Theories of Nationalism
Anderson, Benedict (2006). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread
of Nationalism, New York, Anderson.
Gellner, Ernest (2009). Nation and Nationalism. New York: Cornell University Press.
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Kedourie, Ellie (2000) Nationalism. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers.
Hutchinson, John and Smith, Antony D., (eds.) (2000). Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford
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Kamenka, Eugune (ed) (1973). Nationalism, the Nature and Evolution of an Idea. Edward
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Smith, A.D. (1976). Nationalist Movements. London, Macmillan.
Smith, Antony D. (2010). Nationalism, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Smith, A.D. (1979). Nationalism in the 20th Century. London: Martin Robertson.
Smith, A.D. (1986). The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Oxford: Blackwell.
Smith, A.D. (1991). National Identity. Hammonds Worth. Penguin.
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Spencer, Philip and Wollman, Edward (eds.) (2005). Nations and Nationalism: A Reader.
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Nationalism in Kenya
Atieno-Odhiambo E.S. (1981). Siasa: Politics and Nationalism in East Africa,1905- 1939. Nairobi:
KLB.
Clayton A. and Savage, D.C. (1974). Government and the Labour Force in Kenya,1895-1963.
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Elkins,C., (2005).Britain's Gulag, The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya. London: Jonathan Cape.
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Maina, W. (2008). History of Resistance in Kenya :Mau Mau. Nairobi: Research Centre.
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London: Longman.
Rosberg, Carl, and Nottingham, John (1885). The Myth of Mau Mau, Nationalism in Colonial
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Nationalism in Algeria
Behr, E. (1961). The Algerian Problem. New York: W. W. Norton and Co. Inc.
Brace, R. and Brace, J. (1960). Ordeal in Algeria. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company,
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Martin, B.G. (1976.). Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth Century Africa. Cambridge:
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CambridgeUniversity Press.
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Nationalism in India
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Conflict and Roots of Indian Nationalism; Rulers Townsmen and Bazaars; Origins of
Nationality in South East Asia. Oxford University Press
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London, Macmillan.
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