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“Things Have Gone From Bad to Worse”: Five Strategies for Teaching New Imperialism in Africa

Teaching the Scramble of Africa from an African perspective

“Things Have Gone From Bad to Worse”: Five Strategies for Teaching New Imperialism in Africa
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“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?

“A Situation of Complete Inertia and a Widespread Apathy”: Teaching Everyday Resistance to French Imperialism in Senegal in the 1920s and 1930s
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“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.

“No Day Passed Without Many Deaths”: Teaching Twentieth-Century Genocides and the War Against Humanity
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Transportation Technology on the Trans-Saharan Trade Route

Camels and the Trans-Saharan Trade Network

Transportation Technology on the Trans-Saharan Trade Route
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“We Ladies of Africa”: Feminism, Socialism, and Imperialism, c.1850 - c.1910

Teaching late nineteenth-century global feminism

“We Ladies of Africa”: Feminism, Socialism, and Imperialism, c.1850 - c.1910
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“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

“A Single Black Woman”: African Women and the Portuguese Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century West Africa
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“Everything is Found in Zanzibar”: East Africa, Zanzibar, and World History in the Nineteenth Century

Discussion of teaching nineteenth-century East Africa and Zanzibar

“Everything is Found in Zanzibar”: East Africa, Zanzibar, and World History in the Nineteenth Century
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“At Variance with the Europeans”: East Africa, 1400 - c.1750

Discussion of teaching early modern East Africa

“At Variance with the Europeans”: East Africa, 1400 - c.1750
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“Under God’s Guidance to the Lands of the Swahili Coast”: East Africa Before 1500

Discussion of teaching East African history before 1500

“Under God’s Guidance to the Lands of the Swahili Coast”: East Africa Before 1500
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“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

“A Mixed Population of Muslims and Zanj”: Teaching East Africa in World History, c.1000 to Present