Safari: A Journey through Africa

Instructor: Todd Cleveland

Todd Cleveland is an assistant professor of African history at Augustana. He teaches courses on African History, African development, commodities in Africa and Africana studies. He holds a Ph.D. in African history from the University of Minnesota and prior to joining the faculty at Augustana was based at the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies.

He lived in Angola for two years and has also taught at universities in Ghana and Tanzania. In addition to these experiences, he has traveled extensively in Southern and West Africa, in addition to visiting sites in East and North Africa.

He is currently engaged in a social history project that examines African laborers engaged in formal diamond mining in colonial Angola from its inception in 1917 to Angolan independence in 1975 and another project that examines the migration of African soccer players to Europe.

His publications include examinations of the impact of ANC activity in post-independence Angola, archival research in Portugal, the introduction of industrial education into colonial Angola, the role of soccer in engendering Angolan nationalism, the methodological implications of conducting research in contemporary Angola and the histories of ethnic minorities and child laborers on Angola's colonial-era diamond mines.