HIST 202 Liberation and Resistance in Southern Africa This course seeks to examine the processes of colonization and decolonization during the historical development of a specific region called Southern Africa. By Southern Africa we mean more than just the eleven countries beginning with Angola, Zambia and Malawi which stretch southwards and eastwards toward the island nation of Madagascar and the Republic of South Africa. We include, as well, the island nations of Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros and the Seychelles. But most significantly, we include the Congo as part of Southern Africa for we argue that the Congo has been and remains a key constituent element of that vast and powerful socio-economic complex historically dominated by the Witwatersrand mining conglomerates of Anglo-American, DeBeers, Union Miniere and American Metal Climax.