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Jamie Gravell

BBC News - Audio slideshow: Mapping Africa - 13 views

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    Audio Slideshow - Mapping Africa Mapping Africa is a five minute narrated overview of the changing map of Africa from the 14th Century through today. The slideshow features explanations of the features of different historical maps of Africa.
David Korfhage

African Online Digital Library - Portal Page - 11 views

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    A collection of materials about African history, including primary sources and lessons.  Different subjects, including apartheid in South Africa, and Islam in Africa
Deven Black

The true size of Africa on Twitpic - 13 views

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    People don't realize how large Africa is. This graphic makes it very clear.
Nate Merrill

The Civilizations of Africa - 4 views

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    by Christopher Ehret focus on pre-colonial Africa
Elizca Stemmet

New History of South Africa - 4 views

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    On this site you will find the New History of South Africa book fully uploaded on the internet as well as new written work by well known South African academics, such as Hermann Giliomee. Some schools in South Africa is already using this site as a resource to assist them in their teaching.
Deven Black

On the Water - Living in the Atlantic World, 1450-1800: Web of Connections - 10 views

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    After 1500, a web of maritime trade linked Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Thousands of ships carried explorers, merchants, and migrants from Europe to the Americas. They also transported millions of enslaved men and women from Africa. Vessels bound back to Europe carried gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, rice, and other cargoes, along with returning travelers. Every crossing brought new encounters between people, customs, and ways of life, ultimately creating entirely new cultures in the Americas. The maritime web connected the lives of millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic.
David Hilton

Internet Mission Photography Archive - 0 views

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    A valuable collection for a sad, complex issue.
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    The Internet Mission Photography Archive offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean
David Hilton

The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960 - 0 views

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    A collection of over 8000 photos from East Africa from 1860-1960. Probably useful for classroom resources (you know, stick 'em on a worksheet, that type of thing), assessment pieces or in student research. I found with my year 12s that they needed some guidance on how to extract historical information from images ('thinking historically') but after that they used images like these well in their research for their assignments.
David Hilton

IAM Map Index - 0 views

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    A collection of Euro-centric, high-quality maps you can view in your browser or download. Good for Britain, France, Africa, the Mediterranean and Spain.
Aaron Shaw

WWII in Europe - 7 views

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    "THE WAR IN EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA, & ON THE EASTERN FRONT"
David Hilton

AAAH - 16 views

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    An animated map which is an excellent source of information on foreign interference in Africa. You can zoom and use the left/right keys to navigate through the graphics. Helps to show how African power structures have changed over time. Very cool!
Ginger Lewman

New revelations about slaves and slave trade - CNN.com - 14 views

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    "In the 3¼ centuries between 1492 and about 1820, four enslaved Africans left the Old World for every European. During those years, Africans comprised the largest forced oceanic migration in the history of the world. Who were they? Who organized the slaving voyages? Which parts of Africa did they come from? How did they reach the Americas? And where exactly did they go?"
Eric Beckman

University of Al-Karaouine - Fez, Morocco - Atlas Obscura - 0 views

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    Oldest, continuously operating, degree-granting university in the world. Founded by a female scholar in North Africa
Eric Beckman

Mermaids have always been black - 0 views

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    Article about mermaid traditions in Africa and the Carribbean
David Hilton

Is History history? - 35 views

I am creating a site you and your students might enjoy and perhaps add to. ahaafoundation.org is an online course in the history of art around the world. You can jump in anywhere. I would love to f...

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Eric Beckman

Who built Great Zimbabwe? And why? - Breeanna Elliott | TED-Ed - 1 views

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    Short video on Great Zimbabwe, its connection Indian Ocean trade, and racist theorizing about its origins
Ed Webb

Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts | World news | guar... - 1 views

  • Islamist insurgents retreating from Timbuktu set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless historic manuscripts,
  • The manuscripts had survived for centuries in Timbuktu, on the remote south-west fringe of the Sahara desert. They were hidden in wooden trunks, buried in boxes under the sand and in caves. When French colonial rule ended in 1960, Timbuktu residents held preserved manuscripts in 60-80 private libraries.The vast majority of the texts were written in Arabic. A few were in African languages, such as Songhai, Tamashek and Bambara. There was even one in Hebrew. They covered a diverse range of topics including astronomy, poetry, music, medicine and women's rights. The oldest dated from 1204.
  • they exploded the myth that "black Africa" had only an oral history. "You just need to look at the manuscripts to realise how wrong this is."
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  • only a fraction of the manuscripts had been digitised. "They cover geography, history and religion. We had one in Turkish. We don't know what it said."
  • Mali government forces that had been guarding Timbuktu left the town in late March, as Islamist fighters advanced rapidly across the north. Fighters from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) – the group responsible for the attack on the Algerian gas facility – then swept in and seized the town, pushing out rival militia groups including secular Tuareg nationalists.
  • As well as the manuscripts, the fighters destroyed almost all of the 333 Sufi shrines dotted around Timbuktu, believing them to be idolatrous. They smashed a civic statue of a man sitting on a winged horse.
  • The rebels enforced their own brutal and arbitrary version of Islam, residents said, with offenders flogged for talking to women and other supposed crimes. The floggings took place in the square outside the 15th-century Sankoré mosque, a Unesco world heritage site.
  • They weren't religious men. They were criminals
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    Such a tragedy
Eric Beckman

http://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/#section-0 - 2 views

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    "Paul Salopek's 21,000-mile odyssey is a decade-long experiment in slow journalism. Moving at the beat of his footsteps, Paul is walking the pathways of the first humans who migrated out of Africa in the Stone Age and made the Earth ours. Along the way he is covering the major stories of our time-from climate change to technological innovation, from mass migration to cultural survival-by giving voice to the people who inhabit them every day."
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