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Africa - South of the Sahara
Resources for African history from the Africa pages at Stanford University.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history.html
Africa's Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Perspectives on Africa's indigenous knowledge systems, with extracts from scholarly works in different disciplines.
http://members.aol.com/afsci/africana.htm
Internet African History Sourcebook
Annotated link list (Fordham University).
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
The Baobab Project
Harvard University project to make African visual culture available to a larger audience.
http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/DuBois/Baobab/baobab.html
Trans-Saharan Trade
Trans-Saharan trade and the West African discovery of the Mediterranean world, a paper from the Third Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies.
http://www.hf.uib.no/institutter/smi/nsm/meec.html
History and Cultural Profiles
An introduction to African history and culture by Kenyan scholar Malaika Mutere. From the African Odyssey Interactive project of the Kennedy Center.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/history/ao-guide.html
The Saharan Trade: A Link Between Europe and Africa
Historical examination of Saharan trade routes.
http://library.thinkquest.org/13406/sh/?tqskip1=1
Leo Africanus: Description of Timbuktu
Excerpt from 1526 book "The Description of Africa," at Washington State University history site.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/leo_afri.html
Historical Maps of Africa
Maps dated from 1808 to 1978 from the Perry-Casteñeda Library at the University of Texas at Austin.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_africa.html
Jewish Roots in Africa
Brief essay by George E. Lichtblau on the history of Jews throughout the African continent.
http://www.ubalt.edu/www/kulanu/africa.html
Exploring Africa
An exhibit of maps and travel narratives from Leo Africanus to Chinua Achebe.
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/africa/africa.html
People's History in South Africa
Article from The Radical Historians Newsletter examining the search for ethnic histories in South Africa.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/skotnes.htm
Building Bridges to Afrocentrism: A letter to my Egyptological Colleagues
Three-part article by Ann Macy Roth exploring ethnographical issues in African history.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/30/049.html
Africa: The Cradle of Civilization
An interactive educational site that explores Africa's history from the dawn of mankind to modern day.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C002739/
The Black Man's Burden: The White Man in Africa from the 15th Century to World War I
E. D. Morel's 1920 study of the devastating impact of European interventions and colonialism in Africa, from the slave trade beginning in the 15th century through the partition of Africa leading up to World War I.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/morel/
African History
Articles covering the range of African history.
http://www.suite101.com/articles.cfm/african_history
Civilizations in Africa
Culture and history resource text learning module.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/ABOUT.HTM
The Story of Africa
An introduction to African history from an African perspective, with illustrations and sound recordings. Produced by the BBC World Service.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/
The Economic History of Colonial Africa: Selected Bibliography
A bibliography of selected histories of African culture and civilization.
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/africa/econbibl.html
Quotations on Moorish (Islamic) Civilization
Quotations by Stanley Lane-Poole, Conde, Gustav Lebon, Renan, Homeld, Sideo, Dozy and Thomson.
http://users.erols.com/zenithco/quote3.html
Brief History of Africa
An overview of the major periods of African history, including early history, Africa to the 1400s, the arrival of the Europeans, colonial times, and modern Africa.
http://web.indstate.edu/cimt/classes/websites/yasuo/History.html
De West-Indische Compagnie in West Afrika
Introduction to a three-volume history of the Dutch West-Indische Compagnie (WIC) on the Gold Coast of tropical West-Africa. (1698-1728). English text despite dutch title pages.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/jj.clement/
Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African prince
Full text of 1774 autobiographical document of Gronniosaw, of the city of Barnou.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=GroGron&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed
Africa Since 1945
Collection of links from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook, emphasis on southern Africa.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook53.html
Africa: History Links
African Studies Center links page, University of Pennsylvania.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_hist.html
H-Africa: African History and Culture
H-Net discussion group dedicated to the history and culture of Africa. Features subject overview, thesis abstracts, reviews, bibliographies, essays, links to related resources, and subscription information.
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/
Selections from the Rex B. Grey Collection
Exhibit from the Cushing Memorial Library featuring books chosen for their importance as reflections of European attitudes toward Africa before colonialism was fully entrenched.
http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/onlinex/africa/
EAWC Chronology: Early Islam
Timeline of early Islamic history.
http://eawc.evansville.edu/chronology/ispage.htm
Africa South of the Sahara
Chronology of African history.
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/Africa/Africa.html
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