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| | History of Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Among the discoveries of Schweinfurth was one that confirmed the Greek legends of the existence beyond Egypt of a "pygmy race". | | | One of the regions which was the last to come under Arab rule was that of Nubia, which had been controlled by Christians up to the 14th century. | | | Beginning with an invasion of Egypt, a host of Arabs, believers in the new faith of Islam, conquered the whole of North Africa from the Red Sea to the Atlantic and continued into Spain. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Africa
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| | Internet African History Sourcebook |
| | An History of the Abuyudaya Jews of Uganda | | | These are full descriptions of the countries concerned, in terms of history, geography, economy, etc. There are also useful bibliographies. | | | The Historical and Social Background of the Abayudaya Community, a group of Ugandans who converted to Judaism in the late 19th century. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
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| | Economic history of Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Arabs were far more effective a penetrating the Sahara than the Christians ever were, largely due to the camel, which had carried the jihad from Arabia and would soon carry large amounts of trade across the desert. | | | While those sold into slavery were condemned to repression, servitude and an early death, to those left behind the trade was quite profitable and beneficial. | | | It is today believed that humanity originated in Africa and as soon as human societies formed so did economic activity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Africa
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| | African Studies: African History & Cultures |
| | A Masters' thesis project on the history and cultural traditions of the Gnawa, with maps and suggested readings in print and on the web. | | | This document contains excerpts from articles on Cameroonian history and social anthropology that have appeared in journals published in 1995-1996. | | | "History facing the present: an interview with Jan Vansina" (November 2001) and Reply by Jean-Luc Vellut |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/cult.html
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| | WHKMLA : History of Africa, ToC |
| | Robert O. Collins, Eastern African History in Documents, Markus Wiener 1990, KMLA Lib.Sign. | | | Robert O. Collins, Western African History in Documents, Markus Wiener 1990, KMLA Lib.Sign. | | | Country Archive Page, from Africa Online, recent news articles (since 2003) |
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http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/xafrica.html
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| | History of Africa |
| | The Christian churches claim a membership of some 140 million Africans of whom 55 percent are Protestants. | | | Since World War II, 49 nations have gained their independence, but the colonial experience left Africa with arbitrarily defined boundaries, a diversity of political systems and problems, and economies dependent upon the industrialized world. | | | With an estimated 155 million believers, Islam is the fastest-growing faith in Africa. |
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http://www.cmdeaf.org/stats/h-africa.asp
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| | EARLY HISTORY OF AFRICA |
| | Once the Arab caravans reached West Africa, developing networks began to involve many local Iron Age societies, creating large urban centers with centralized political power that regulated and controlled this trade. | | | Often, when historians research neighboring societies, they find the same events described in oral history. | | | Africa is referred to as the "cradle for all humankind." Archaeological records document the development of different regional groups of people--with their own technologies and local cultural styles. |
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http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/history1.htm
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| | History of Africa |
| | It is only in recent years historians have started to put together the true history of the old continent where humans first walked. | | | By claiming this, the white people could justify their rights to the country -at least to themselves. | | | Contrary to the belief of many people Africa has a history going back to a long time before the arrival of white people. |
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http://crawfurd.dk/africa/history.htm
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| | HISTORY OF AFRICA |
| | Islamic centers have been documented in history -- some gaining international acclaim (these are discussed in my report) | | | African Muslims had the opportunity to make Islam relevant to their walks of life. | | | White mercenaries were all about greed and grandeur. |
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http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/history2.htm
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| | History of Africa: AD 1 to 1994 |
| | Great warrior leader Sun Diata founds Mali empire in West Africa; it expands under his rule | | | Christian Nubians and Arabs in Egypt agree that Aswan on Nile should mark southern limit of Arab expansion | | | Ruler of Congo kingdom baptized as Christian by Portuguese |
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http://home.vicnet.net.au/~neils/africa/africa-history.htm
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| | African Timelines Part II: African Empires |
| | Jim Jones, History Dept., West Chester Univ., 1998): | | | (David W. Koeller, History Dept., Northpark Univ., 1996-1999): | | | Ethnic rivalries and hostilities did exist, as did ethnocentrism (a belief that one's group and its lifeways are superior to those of other groups), but the concept of race was a foreign import. |
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http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline2.htm
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| | African History |
| | African frustration was compounded by the inconsistency between, on the one hand, universalistic Christian ideals (for Christianity spread widely during the colonial period, as did Islam) and liberal political ideas which colonialism introduced into Africa, and, on the other hand, the discrimination and racism which marked colonialism everywhere. | | | Post-war Africans were well aware that they were being denied the very rights for which they and their colonial masters had fought. | | | This discrepancy deepened during the Second World War, when the British and French exhorted their African subjects to provide military service and labor for a war effort which was intended, in part, to uphold the principle of national self-determination. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/history/giblinhistory.html
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| | Unitarian history - South Africa |
| | This led to a public appeal to him to found a community based upon what was called the 'new theology'. | | | This large two-volume document is in the process of being condensed into an A4 publication so as to make it more accessible to interested readers. | | | Recently all four groups met in Cape Town to plan for the future and it was decided to establish a national body of South African Unitarians which would have the role of co-ordinating and planning growth and activities on a national level. |
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http://www.unitarian.co.za/unitarian_history_rsa.html
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| | The Story of Africa BBC World Service |
| | Hear what it was like to live under colonialism, follow the struggle against it, and celebrate the achievement of independence. | | | The Story of Africa tells the history of the continent from an African perspective. | | | Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml
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| | Art History of Africa |
| | The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History maintains the largest collection of African art in the United States (over 26,000 works from across the continent) and has particularly extensive holdings from Ghana, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | | | The Department of Art History at UCLA is demonstrating a serious commitment to reshaping the field of art history as a discipline through numerous appointments in African, Asian, Latin American, contemporary art, as well as museum and post-colonial theory. | | | the art history of africa and the african diaspora at ucla |
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http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/HUMnet/arthist/the_program/african.html
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| | HISTORY l90/291: HISTORY OF AFRICA |
| | Read Colin Turnbull's The Forest People or The Mountain People and write a review essay analyzing the societies Turnbull describes and the role of the historian/anthropologist in describing "traditional" peoples. | | | History l90/291 does not concern itself with a myriad of "facts" and unfamiliar names and terms either, because such a comprehensive examination of the continent's history lies beyond the scope of a one-semester course. | | | Read Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth and write a review essay on the problems of political and economic instability in modern Africa. |
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http://history.acusd.edu/gen/classes/africa/syl190.html
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| | Africa - Early History |
| | Images from World History- Ancient Sudan - Kingdom of Mero | | | History of the Continent of Africa, 400-1650 C.E. Islam in Africa - timeline | | | Akan and Asante History and the Gold Trade |
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http://www.historyteacher.net/GlobalStudies/Africa_EarlyHistory.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: History Of Africa: Books |
| | He also explains the origins of apartheid as a colonial parting gift that became entrenched racist national policy for more than fifty years. | | | A remarkable book about Africa that takes you into time, written by an author who has a balanced judgment of the land, its past, its people, their strength and their weaknesses as well as the irrepressible forces that are the continent's future. | | | Beginning with the evolution of mankind itself, the book traces the history of Africa through the millennia of the ancient world to the centuries of medieval and modern Africa. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312125984
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| | The Environmental History of Africa: Topic Outlines |
| | They are necessarily idiosyncratic, though as a whole they attempt to suggest a way of organizing key themes in African environmental history. | | | In addition to the outlines themselves, they include suggested reading, film, and discussion exercises that will stimulate students to think through issues of policy, perception, and the role of future research. | | | The intent of these outlines is to serve only as a guideline for the instructor to develop his/her own course structure. |
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http://www.bu.edu/africa/envr/topic.html
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| | History - Chad - Africa |
| | Desperately poor, the governments of President Francois Tombalbaye, a southerner, were supported by French aid. | | | In the late 19th century the area was subdued by the Sudanese conqueror Rabih al-Zubayr, and it was taken over by the French on his death. | | | The export of slaves to North Africa was an important sector of the economy of these states. |
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http://www.countriesquest.com/africa/chad/history.htm
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| | History of AFRICA |
| | There may perhaps be a link, in the migration eastwards of the Sahara people, but archaeology has found no evidence of it. | | | Africa is the setting for the long dawn of human history. | | | The Sahara is also the site of the earliest new Stone Age (or neolithic) culture to have been discovered in Africa. |
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http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab24
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| | History of Africa the true story |
| | The CSIR is an institution that was shaped by the apartheid regime it had served well for 40 years. | | | The fact that Bantu speaking peoples of the region had a highly civilized existence hundreds of years before the first Europeans arrived was too much for any settler to bear.. | | | Apartheid led to the immorality act, population registration, segregation, Bantu Education, the homeland system, black resistance, the freedom charter, treason trials, defiance campaigns, the Sharpeville massacre and finally Liberation in 1994 when the first democratic elections was held. |
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http://www.rebirth.co.za/history_of_africa.htm
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| | General History of Africa |
| | While it appears a bit out of place, chapter 28 on the African diaspora examines the migrations out of Africa before and during the nineteenth century and the implications of these migrations for other parts of the world. | | | Among the notable events of the century were demographic and population movements in different parts of Africa, an increasing European encroachment, improvements in agricultural systems, and a tendency toward centralized power structures, which promoted the emergence of many warriors and new states. | | | Advocates and critics of an Africa-centered approach will find more ammunition here to support their conflicting positions. |
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http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v2/v2i4a9.htm
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| | Natural History Museum: Africa: One Continent. Many Worlds |
| | This page is part of the "AFRICA: One Continent. | | | You will also find exhibitions of art and photography found no where else on the web. | | | Many Worlds." web site is a collaborative project between The Field Museum, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the California African American Museum and the Armory Center for the Arts. |
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http://www.nhm.org/africa/home.html
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| | The history of Africa as a whole |
| | Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives and does not presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to release their copyright. | | | The contemporary political history of Africa as a whole and pan-africanism | | | Documents for the history of Africa in relation to the wider world |
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http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/30
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| | History of Africa Analysis |
| | In all three cases, we examined the region from antiquity to the present considering themes such as state formation, the rise of militant Islamic states, ties to global markets and colonial conquest. | | | Not only did the course provide a mass of dates and important people, the instructor also did a marvelous job of narrating the story of the land and its people in a way that I could share with my own students. | | | African history is a nearly universally neglected subject in the public schools (and in the academic literature as well) and this course makes for a nice corrective. |
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http://www.duke.edu/~sgv3/Learn/history_of_africa.htm
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| | Background History |
| | Multiregional and uniregional theories of human origins point to Africa as the birthplace of humanity. | | | The Kenyan -Ethiopian- Tanzanian region is perhaps the birthplace of modern humans, subject to new finds.Note also that several religions do not accept this view on human origins. | | | The evidence so far implies that the first humans in the world (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa about 200,000 years ago and migrated to the various continents much later-perhaps as recent as 45,000 years ago in the case of migration to Europe. |
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http://www.africahistory.net/afrihist.htm
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| | UNESCO Collection of General and Regional Histories: General History of Africa |
| | Published in eight volumes, the General History of Africa is available in two editions, either complete in Arabic, English and French, or abridged in English, French and several other languages including Hausa, Peul and Swahili. | | | Such projects help Africans to strengthen their cultural identity and spread the history of their continent around the world. | | | These are intended, now and in the future, to extend the dissemination of the work to the greatest number of people in Africa and the rest of the world. |
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http://www.unesco.org/culture/africa/html_eng/index_en.htm
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| | History of Africa Class Resources |
| | Language Families: Niger Congo, Afro Asiatic, Khoisan, Nilo Saharan, from the Rosetta Project | | | Images of Meroe from Images from World History | | | Origins of the Human Race from the BBC |
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http://faculty.weber.edu/KLPAYNE/History4610/africalinks.htm
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| | UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. II |
| | The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. | | | "The overall aim of The UNESCO General History of Africa may be said to be the Africanisation of African history through a scientific account of the ideas, civilization, societies, and traditions of the continent's peoples."--Chinweizu, South | | | Historical connections with other continents demonstrate Africa's contribution to the development of human civilization. |
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http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8586.html
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| | History Department - University of Colorado at Colorado Springs |
| | Michigan State University provides an excellent e-mail discussion group on African History (H-Africa) and H-West Africa on the history and culture of West Africa. | | | The Earth Center website also features The Chicago Firefly Magazine - a monthly magazine focusing on culture, philosophy, and parapsychology from an African/people of color perspective. | | | The Journal includes three articles on historiography in African history. |
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http://web.uccs.edu/history/globalhistory/africa.html
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| | The Environmental History of Africa: Themes and Topics |
| | Colonial and Post-Apartheid Water Projects in Southern Africa: Political Agendas and Environmental Consequences, by Kate B. Showers, WP 214 (1998). | | | Integrating the History of Land Use into Epidemiology: Settler Agriculture as a Cause of Disease in Zimbabwe, by James Giblin, WP 176 (1994). | | | The Sacred Forests of North Pare, Tanzania: Indigenous Conservation, Local Politics, and Land Tenure, by Michael J. Sheridan, WP 224 (2000). |
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http://www.bu.edu/africa/envr/themes.html
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| | JSTOR: History in Africa |
| | History in Africa is published annually and is edited by David Henige of the University of Wisconsin. | | | Please read JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use before you begin. | | | History in Africa: A Journal of Method focuses on historiographical and methodological concerns. |
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http://www.jstor.org/journals/03615413.html
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| | History South Africa |
| | Our history in South Africa begins in 1904, when four sisters arrived in Port Elizabeth to commence the mission and ministerial works of the Little Company of Mary. | | | The sisters work in the parish, mainly visiting the sick and marginalized people in the area. | | | From a small, and initially difficult foundation in Port Elizabeth, the congregation expanded its ministries. |
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http://sthafrica.lcmglobal.org/History_South_Africa/history_south_africa.html
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