Africa
“I Saved My People”: State Building in Africa, 1200 - 1450
Discussion of teaching African state-building between 1200 and 1450
“They Forge Their Own Iron Work”: The Transatlantic Slave System, African Iron Working, the Industrial Revolution, and Reflecting on Our Work
Discussion of teaching the African influences on the Industrial Revolution
Monthly Digest: February 2024
Digest for February 2024
“The Enemies of Colonialism and Racism”: Intersectionality and Teaching Decolonization after 1965
Discussion of teaching decolonization intersectionally with a focus on Southern Africa
“To Destroy the Colonial World”: Teaching Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Decolonization
Discussion of teaching Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth when teaching decolonization.
“The Total Liberation of the African Continent”: Kwame Nkrumah’s Independence Speech and Decolonization
Discussion of Kwame Nkrumah’s independence speech as a tool to teach decolonization
“We Will Fight in Every Way We Can”: Teaching Decolonization from 1945 to 1955
Discussion of how to teach decolonization from 1945 to 1955 using African and Asian primary sources
“Conscious of Myself as a Kenya African”: The Effect of the Second World War on Colonial African Soldiers
Discussion of how the Second World affected African soldiers fighting in Asia.
“The Outbreak of the Present War”: Decolonization During and After the Second World War
Discussion of teaching decolonization’s connections to the Second World War and the Cold War
“Those Who Suffer Under Colonial Oppression Must Join Hands”: International Anticolonialism in the Interwar Years
Discussion of teaching anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s as a global movement
