Required reading must be completed before you meet in your discussion section.

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Documents: Worger and Clark, Africa and the West, vol. 1:

document # 45, “Christianity and cattle killing,” 1856, pp. 182-85
document #50, “Samuel Crowther on the role of African missionaries,” 1854, pp. 199-201

In your reading this week think about the many ways in which Africans and Europeans interacted, especially intellectually and economically, before the end of the 19th century. Would you describe African societies as static? How do these societies compare, in their political and economic and social organization, with the portrayal of African societies in the last film or television show that you have seen that included some discussion of Africa? Think "The Legend of Tarzan," 2016, or practically any Indiana Jones movie.