What, according to Colin Palmer, is the African Diaspora? How does the concept help us to understand the African past? What is the difference between the ancient African Diaspora and the modern African Diaspora? What are the five streams of the African Diaspora?
What is at stake in the argument over whether or not the Ancient Egyptians should be considered part of African history? What were the arguments of Anta Diop and Hegel on this matter?
Why are terms like ‘natives’ and ‘tribes’ considered not only insulting and inappropriate but erroneous when discussing African history? Why is ‘tribe’ in fact not an adequate or useful category of analysis when it comes to understanding African history?
How would you compare and contrast the African Diasporas in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Mediterranean/Europe?
How would you compare and contrast the highly centralized and de-centralized West African civilizations? What were some of their major cultural, political, social and economic institutions?
Trace the geographical spread of the sugar plantation around the Atlantic world (rim). What impact did it have on Africa, on Europe and on the Americas?
Compare and contrast the plantation societies of South America, the Caribbean and North America?