Africa
“Things Have Gone From Bad to Worse”: Five Strategies for Teaching New Imperialism in Africa
Teaching the Scramble of Africa from an African perspective
“A Situation of Complete Inertia and a Widespread Apathy”: Teaching Everyday Resistance to French Imperialism in Senegal in the 1920s and 1930s
What were the weapons of the weak in French Senegal?
“No Day Passed Without Many Deaths”: Teaching Twentieth-Century Genocides and the War Against Humanity
Discussion of the Herero and Nama Genocide and the teaching of twentieth-century genocides.
Transportation Technology on the Trans-Saharan Trade Route
Camels and the Trans-Saharan Trade Network
“We Ladies of Africa”: Feminism, Socialism, and Imperialism, c.1850 - c.1910
Teaching late nineteenth-century global feminism
“A Single Black Woman”: African Women and the Portuguese Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century West Africa
Teaching how African women influenced the slave trade in seventeenth-century West Africa
“Everything is Found in Zanzibar”: East Africa, Zanzibar, and World History in the Nineteenth Century
Discussion of teaching nineteenth-century East Africa and Zanzibar
“At Variance with the Europeans”: East Africa, 1400 - c.1750
Discussion of teaching early modern East Africa
“Under God’s Guidance to the Lands of the Swahili Coast”: East Africa Before 1500
Discussion of teaching East African history before 1500
“A Mixed Population of Muslims and Zanj”: Teaching East Africa in World History, c.1000 to Present
Discussion of teaching East Africa Africa in World History