West Africa
“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 Huge Contingent of Armed Africans”: Revisiting Enslaved African Resistance
Discussion of teaching the Malê Revolt
“We the Women Will Fight”: Africa in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching Africa in the world wars
“Their Liberty Will Form a Parallel to the History of Europe”: Teaching West Africa in the Age of Revolutions
Discussion of teaching West Africa as part of the Age of the Revolutions
“Turned His Attention to the Land of Sudan”: Teaching the 1591 Conflict between Morocco and the Songhai
Discussion of teaching rivalries between states in world history
“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
“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
“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
“Indirect Ways of Expressing our Patriotism”: Centering Women in Teaching Anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s
Discussion of teaching women’s anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s
