Week One<\/strong><\/p>\nAchebe, Chinua. \u201cAfrica\u2019s Tarnished Name\u201d In Another Africa, Chinua Achebe and Robert Lyons. 103-117. Surrey: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1998.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfrican Creation Stories\u201d Handout. (2 pages)<\/p>\n
Bohannan, Paul and Philip Curtin. \u201cThe Myth and the Fact,\u201d 3-18. In Africa and Africans. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1995.<\/p>\n
Gilbert, Erik and Jonathan Reynolds. \u201cThe Physical Context of African History: Geography and Environment,\u201d 16-36. In Africa in World History: From Prehistory to the Present<\/em>. New York: Prentice Hall, 2009.<\/p>\nHammond, Dorothy and Alta Jablow. \u201cThe First Light on the Dark Continent,\u201d The Africa that Never Was: Four Centuries of British Writing on Africa<\/em>, 7-48. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1992.<\/p>\nHarris, Joseph. \u201cTradition of Myths & Stereotypes,\u201d In Africans and Their History. 1-20. Cornwall: Plume, 1998<\/p>\n
Miner, Horace. \u201cBody Ritual Among the Nacirema\u201d American Anthropologist 58 (1956): 503-507.<\/p>\n
Week Two<\/strong><\/p>\nBa, Mariama. So Long A Letter<\/em>. London: Heinemann, 2008 (novella: 96 pages)<\/p>\nNiane, D. T. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali<\/em>. New York: Longman, 2006 (oral history: 120 pages)<\/p>\nOkonjo, Kamene. \u201cThe Dual-Sex Political System in Operation: Igbo Women and Community Politics in Midwestern Nigeria.\u201d In Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change<\/em>, ed. N. J. Hafkin, and Edna G. Bay, 45-56. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1976.<\/p>\nWeek Three<\/strong><\/p>\nAfonso, Dom. \u201cEvils of the Slave Trade\u201d [Primary Document]. 223-226. In Basil Davidson, African Civilization Revisited: From Antiquity to Modern Times. New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1991.<\/p>\n
Barbot, John. \u201cThe Trade in Captives\u201d [Primary Document]. 250-252. In Basil Davidson, African Civilization Revisited: From Antiquity to Modern Times. New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1991.<\/p>\n
Curtin, Philip. Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the era of the slave trade<\/em>. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. (363 pages)<\/p>\nEquiano, Olaudah. \u201cThe Author\u2019s birth and parentage\u2014His being kidnapped with his sister\u2014Horrors of the slave-ship,\u201d 23-42. In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The African<\/em>.Penguin Classics, reprinted 1995.<\/p>\nJohnston, John. \u201cThe Price of Slaves\u201d [Primary Document]. 273. In Basil Davidson, African Civilization Revisited: From Antiquity to Modern Times. New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1991.<\/p>\n
Week Four<\/strong><\/p>\nAchebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart<\/em>. New York: Knopf, 1992. (novel: 181 pages)<\/p>\nAchebe, Nwando. \u201cBalancing Male & Female Principles in Things Fall Apart.\u201d In Don Burness, Inocencia Mata and Vicky<\/p>\n
Hartnac, eds. When Things Came Together: Studies on Estudossobre Chinua Achebe<\/em>,\u201d 140-160. Lisboa, Portugal: Faculdade de Letras, Univerdidade de Lisboa, 2008.<\/p>\n\u201c4th Witness: Nwanyeruwa\u201d [Primary Document]. 24-27. Aba Commission of Inquiry, Notes of Evidence. In D. C. Dorward,The Igbo \u201cWomen\u2019s War\u201d of 1929: Documents Relating to the Aba Riots in Eastern Nigeria. Yorkshire: Microform Ltd, 1983.<\/p>\n
Lugard, Frederick. \u201cIndirect Rule in Tropical Africa,\u201d [Primary Document]. 291-297. In Robert O. Collins, Documents from the African Past. Princeton, New Jersey: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecords of the Maji Maji, The Maji Maji Rebellion 1905-1907\u201d [Primary Document]. 305-311. In Robert O. Collins, Documents from the African Past. Princeton, New Jersey: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001.<\/p>\n
Oyono, Ferdinand. Houseboy<\/em>. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2012 (novel: 122 pages)<\/p>\nSupplemental Readings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nPre-Colonial States and Small-Scale Societies: <\/strong><\/p>\nConnah Graham. African Civilizations: an Archaeological Perspective<\/em>. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 2nd edition.<\/p>\nLevtzion, Nehemia. Ancient Ghana and Mali<\/em>. London: Methuen, 1973.<\/p>\nLonsdale, John. \u201cStates and Social Processes in Africa.\u201d African Studies Review, 1981.<\/p>\n
Marcus, Harold. A History of Ethiopia. Berkeley<\/em>: University of California Press, 2002.<\/p>\nRodney, Walter. A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800<\/em>. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1970.<\/p>\nThornton, John K. The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641-1718<\/em>. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
\nSlavery and the Slave Trades:<\/strong><\/p>\nAfigbo, A. E. The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950<\/em> (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora).University of Rochester Press, 2006.<\/p>\nBeswick, Stephanie and Jay Spaulding. African Systems of Slavery<\/em>, eds. 105-133. New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2010.<\/p>\nCarney, Judith. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.<\/p>\nDiouf, Sylviane, ed. Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies<\/em> (Western African Studies), Ohio University Press, 2003.<\/p>\nHawthorne, Walter. Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves<\/em>. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003.<\/p>\nInikori, Joseph E. Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies<\/em>. London: Hutchinson, 1982.<\/p>\nKlein, Martin and Claire Robertson. Women & Slavery in Africa<\/em> (Social History of Africa). Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1997.<\/p>\nLovejoy, Paul. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa<\/em>. Cambridge:
\nCambridge University Press, 1983<\/p>\nMiers, Suzanne and Richard Roberts, eds. The End of Slavery in Africa<\/em>. 1984<\/p>\nReis, Jo\u00e3o Jos\u00e9. Slave Rebellion in Brazil<\/em>. The Johns Hopkins University Press; Reprint edition (September 1, 1995)<\/p>\nSweet, James. Recreating Africa<\/em>. The University of North Carolina Press (February 23, 2006).<\/p>\nWright, Marcia. Strategies of Slaves & Women: Life-Stories from East\/Central Africa<\/em>. L. Barber Press, 1993.
\nWomen and Gender:<\/strong><\/p>\nAchebe, Nwando. The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe<\/em>, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2011.<\/p>\nAchebe, Nwando. Farmers, Traders, Warriors and Kings: Female Power and Authority <\/em>in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960<\/em>. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann Social History Series 2005.<\/p>\nAmadiume, Ifi. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society<\/em>. London: Zed Books, 1987.<\/p>\nBay, Edna. Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey<\/em>. Charlottesville and London, 1998.<\/p>\nBoahen, Adu. Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-1<\/em>. James Currey, 2003.<\/p>\nCornwall, Andrea, ed. Readings In Gender In Africa<\/em>. Indiana University Press, 2005.<\/p>\nGeiger, Susan. TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955-1965<\/em> .Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997.<\/p>\nKaplan, Flora, ed. Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses, and Power: Case Studies in African Gender<\/em> (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 810). New York Academy of Sciences, 1997.<\/p>\nMack, Beverly and Jean Boyd (eds).One Woman’s Jihad: Nana Asma’U, Scholar and <\/em>Scribe<\/em>, Indiana University Press, 2000.<\/p>\nNast, Heidi J. Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years In A Northern Nigerian<\/em> Palace<\/em>. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.<\/p>\nOyewumi, Oyeronke. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses<\/em>. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Historical Dimensions of Religion:<\/strong><\/p>\nAnderson, David and Johnson, D. H. Revealing Prophets: Prophecy in Eastern African History<\/em>, London: James Currey, 1995.<\/p>\nComaroff, Jean. Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People<\/em>, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.<\/p>\nFields, Karen E. Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa<\/em>, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.<\/p>\nLevtzion, Nehemia, and Randall L. Pouwels (eds.). The History of Islam in Africa<\/em>. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000.<\/p>\nMbiti, John S. African Religions & Philosophy<\/em>. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1990. 2nd edition.<\/p>\nPeel, J. D. Y. Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba<\/em>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.<\/p>\nRobinson, David. Muslim Societies in African History<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.<\/p>\nThorton, John. The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706<\/em>. Cambridge University Press, 1998.<\/p>\nColonial Africa:<\/strong><\/p>\nAfigbo, A. E. The Warrant Chiefs: Indirect Rule in Southeastern Nigeria, 1891-1929<\/em>. London: Longman, 1972.<\/p>\nAnderson, David. Histories of the Hanged: the Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire<\/em>. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.<\/p>\nBoahen, Adu A. African Perspectives on Colonialism<\/em>. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.<\/p>\nCooper, Frederick. Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.<\/p>\nDavidson, Basil. The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State<\/em>.
\nLondon. 1992<\/p>\nOyono, Ferdinand. Houseboy<\/em>. London: Heinemann, 1966.<\/p>\nThompson, Leonard. A History of South Africa<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Readings for Africa in World History Summer Institute NEH READER Other readings Jakhanke Islamic Ethic Alpers MSU NEH – The Indian Ocean Slave Trade Alpers MSU reading list Required Readings Week One Achebe, Chinua. \u201cAfrica\u2019s Tarnished Name\u201d In Another Africa, Chinua Achebe and Robert Lyons. 103-117. Surrey: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1998. \u201cAfrican Creation Stories\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanworldhistory.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanworldhistory.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanworldhistory.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanworldhistory.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanworldhistory.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/africanworldhistory.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"http:\/\/africanworldhistory.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions\/817"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanworldhistory.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanworldhistory.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}