Unit Two: Studying Africa through the Social Studies

Module 7B: African History, the Era of Global Encroachment

Teacher's Edition

Suggested Readings and Historical Sources

Boahen, A. Adu, General History of Africa: VII Africa Under Colonial Domination
1880-1935, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Boahen, A. Adu, African Perspectives on Colonialism, Baltimore: The John Hopkins
University Press, 1987.

Bohannan, Paul and Philip Curtin, Africa and Africans, Prospect Heights: Waveland
Press, 1988.

Collins, Robert O., Problems in the History of Modern Africa, Princeton: Markus Wiener
Publishers, 1997.

Gordon, April A. and Donald L. Gordon, Understanding Contemporary Africa, Boulder:
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996.

Mamdani, Mahmood, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late
Colonialism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Mazrui, Ali A., General History of Africa: VIII Africa Since 1935, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1999.

Oliver, Roland and J.D. Fage, A Short History of Africa, London: Penguin Books, 1988.

Worger, William, Nancy Clark, and Edward A. Alpers, Africa and the West: A
Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence, Phoenix: Oryx Press, 2001.

Young, Crawford, The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective, New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1994.

Websites

• http://www.pbs.org/hopes/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/
• http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm
• http://webworld.unesco.org/goree/
• http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/
• http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/
• http://matrix.msu.edu/educonsult/

Begin Module 7B with Activity One.