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Internet African History Sourcebooks.
A brief introduction to the value of linguistic studies to the study of the African past. A bold application of the materialist approach to the understanding of precolonial African society by a leader of the French Marxist school of anthropology. Natalie Dickson MA '17 Read more. Denoon, Donald, and Adam Kuper. New York: Longman, Please contact any of the authors if you wish to see a selection of readings and resources and to gain access to a Facebook group where academic resources are freely shared. Writing Independent History: African Historiography, —
Presents and preserves an array of primary and secondary sources on African history, from the earliest times to the modern era. Includes original texts and various materials organized to showcase differing perspectives on key issues and debates in African history. Valuable for researchers, as well as for undergraduate and graduate students.
Paden, John N. Soja, eds.
The African Experience. Massive and comprehensive, though dated. Focus is on the modern era, especially the colonial and the immediate postcolonial periods. Emphasis on social, economic, and political issues.
Valuable for researchers, graduate students, and those with an interest in the immediate postcolonial decade. Scheven, Yvette. Bibliographies for African Studies, — New York: Zell, A compilation of bibliographies that have been published as books, articles, or as parts of edited volumes in African studies dealing with different disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Fully annotated. Updated annually in the African Book Publishing Record each year. For libraries and specialists. Several reference works exist for the study of African history. Vogel provides the most authoritative exploration of issues related to the precolonial history of Africa.
For comprehensive and more detailed coverage, consult Middleton and Miller and Shillington Ajayi and Crowder is a colorful and well-illustrated historical atlas. Zeleza and Eyoh provides the best single-volume reference work on 20th-century African history. Africa South of the Sahara. London: Routledge, —. A major reference work, published annually since Provides rare and valuable information, a narrative of recent history, statistical surveys, and a directory on each African country.
Contains background articles on the continent and key information on African regional and international organizations. Available online by subscription. Ajayi, J. Ade, and Michael Crowder. Historical Atlas of Africa. Covers a wide range of subjects related to African history and society, from the earliest times and the first hominids to the modern era. Contains detailed, beautiful, multicolored, large-format maps as well as photographs, numerical data, and accompanying historical narratives on more than seventy subjects.
Essential reference work for researchers. Fage, John D.
The Cambridge History of Africa. Detailed survey of African history from the earliest times to the midth century.
Written exclusively by British and American historians. Has extensive bibliographies. In-depth coverage for the specialists as well as for undergraduate and graduate students.
This is a book for all readers concerned with the future of Africa. The first history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa, it begins in the monasteries of. Oriental and African Studies, London; Seeley Historical Library,. Cambridge Africa.3 The hope that research and practical thought about poverty may.
Middleton, John, and Joseph C. Miller, eds. New Encyclopedia of Africa. New York: Scribner, The most comprehensive encyclopedia on Africa in print. Co-authored by a historical anthropologist and a historian. Contains numerous entries on African history and historiography. Coverage extends beyond historical topics to other subjects, unlike Shillington and Zeleza and Eyoh Essential library collection.
Shillington, Kevin, ed. Encyclopedia of African History. Several articles dealing with different aspects of the sources, methods, and historiography of Africa. On African historiography generally, see pp. On historiography of Western Africa, see pp. On sources of African history, see pp. Contains essential reference materials for public and institutional libraries.
Also available in digitized e-book version. Berkeley: University of California Press, — Unlike the Cambridge History of Africa Fage and Oliver — , this was written primarily by African specialists with a greater focus on archaeology, oral history, and African initiatives and contributions. Has extensive bibliographies at the end of each volume.
Vogel, Joseph O. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira, A comprehensive and readable exploration of key issues and themes on the peoples, languages, and history of precolonial Africa. The bulk of the volume pp. Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe, and Dickson Eyoh, eds. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. New York: Routledge, Compact and continental in focus, the volume explores the history of Africa in the 20th century.
Focuses on the development of its historiography and on the varied, massive, complex, and contradictory sociopolitical transformations the continent has experienced in the last hundred years. Many journals on African history exist. The most authoritative is the Journal of African History , which publishes on all areas of African history, as does International Journal of African Historical Studies.
History in Africa is focused specifically on historical methods, with emphasis on the use of nonwritten sources. African Studies Review publishes on all areas of African studies. Africa concentrates on society and culture, while African Economic History concentrates on economic history. African Studies Quarterly is an online publication of time-sensitive research results. Nearly all of the journals cited here are now available and accessible online, either directly through the individual publisher or through JSTOR.
Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. A premier quarterly journal dedicated to the study of African society and culture. Publishes in the fields of humanities as well as the social and environmental sciences. Its special interests are in an interdisciplinary approach, the local production of knowledge, and critical analysis based on African categories.
African Economic History. Published annually, this journal focuses primarily on economic themes and issues. Emphasis on historiography, as well as on colonial and postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa. Preceded by African Economic History Review — Available by subscription only. African Studies Quarterly —. Publishes articles on all areas of African studies, with a special focus on issues that are of a time-sensitive nature.