Teaching Resources
‘Internet History Sourcebooks’ https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/africa/africasbook.asp [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘African Online Digital Library – Portal Page’ http://aodl.org/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘Exploring Africa’ http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘Endangered Archives Programme’ https://eap.bl.uk/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘African Kingdoms – Precolonial African History A-Level option (UK)’ https://africankingdoms.co.uk/# [accessed 29 May 2023]
Articles or book chapters online
‘Unesco – General History of Africa’: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/permalink/P-e02b3add-207d-44b0-9377-086bb48de9e9 [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘Unesco – Women in African History’ http://en.unesco.org/womeninafrica/open-educational-resources [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘African Studies – Authoritative Research Guide – Oxford Bibliographies – Obo’ http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/african-studies [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘African Timelines Part II: African Empires’ http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline2.htm [accessed 29 May 2023]
Animation films
Begho, a market town in 16th century, West Africa, 7 min, by Daniel Kumah and Victoria Aryee (University of Ghana Researchers – Script) and Past and Curious (French animated series on archaeology – Production) and Animax FYB (Ghanaian Animation Studio – Productions). Available in English, French, Asanti Twi, Ewe, Dagbani & Ga. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GF5k46JE3Q [accessed 29 May 2023]
Fort Amsterdam, 5 min, by Kojo Derban (Architect and University of Ghana Researcher – Script) and Animax FYB (Ghanaian Animation Studio – Production). Available in English, French, Fanti, Ewe, Hausa & Ga languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3v7iM2aakI [accessed 29 May 2023]
Salvage Archaeology, 60 sec, by Edward Nyarko (University of Ghana Researcher – Script) and Indigene X (Ghanaian Animation Studio – Production). Available in English, Fanti, Ewe, Hausa & Ga languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LguC-14B4o8 [accessed 29 May 2023]
Maps
‘Afriterra.org’ http://www.afriterra.org/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘Compare Countries With This Simple Tool’, The True Size, http://thetruesize.com/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
Slavery
‘Teaching Slavery and the Slave Trade |’ http://tubman.info.yorku.ca/educational-resources/teaching-slavery-and-the-slave-trade/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade’ http://slavevoyages.org/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘Legacies of British Slave-Ownership’ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
The trouble with the African Past?
‘Prof Richard Reid Inaugural Lecture: The Trouble with the African Past | SOAS University of London’ http://www.soas.ac.uk/about/events/inaugurals/04dec2013-prof-richard-reid-inaugural-lectur… [accessed 29 May 2023]
Benin
‘Benin Plaques’, British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/contested-objects-collection/benin-bronzes [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘British Museum – Africa’ https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/africa [accessed 29 May 2023]
Asante
http://www.ascleiden.nl/content/webdossiers/asante-kingdom [accessed 29 May 2023]
https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/history/ashanti.php [accessed 29 May 2023]
http://www.thekingdomofasante.com/history-of-asante/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
Senegambia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMytlZcXRwA [accessed 29 May 2023]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56tgoANQ1Us [accessed 29 May 2023]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fDwtm2g0oM [accessed 29 May 2023]
Kongo
‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I.e. The Met Museum http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/kongo [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘John Thornton’s African Texts » African American Studies | Boston University’ http://www.bu.edu/afam/faculty/john-thornton/john-thorntons-african-texts/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
Songhai
‘Exhibition – Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu | Exhibitions – Library of Congress’, 2010 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mali/mali-exhibit.html#obj2 [accessed 29 May 2023]
‘Djenné – Zamani Project’ https://zamaniproject.org/site-mali-djenne-great-mosque.html#header5-an [accessed 29 May 2023]
Other museums
‘Quai Branly – Home’, http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/ [accessed 29 May 2023]
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Autumn 2015: Kongo, Power and Majesty [accessed 29 May 2023]
British Library, October 2015-February 2016: West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song [accessed 29 May 2023]
Youtube
Lost Kingdoms of Africa : Gus Casely-Hayford.
Into Africa : Henry Louis Gates Jr.