Essay Tips and Tricks Resources available from class: Primary Sources The Epic

Essay Tips and Tricks

Resources available from class:

Primary Sources

The Epic of Son-Jara

Benin Plaques

Catalan Atlas

Al-Idrisi global map

Africa’s Great Civilizations: Cities

Primary sources quoted within secondary sources, such as:

Religious texts (Torah, Bible, Quran)

Accounts from Muslim travelers, like ibn Battuta

“Slavery Old and New”

Gomez Ch 5

TJ Tallie Introduction, p1-10

Steve Biko – “Black Consciousness”

Voices of Decolonization selections

Watch: Prospects of Mankind: Africa – A Revolution in Haste

Listen: Mandela: An Audio History

Listen: Fela Kuti – “Zombie”

Decolonization of the State and Mind

Secondary Sources

John Parker and Richard Rathbone – “The Idea of Africa”

Michael Gomez – Reversing Sail

Toby Green – “Three Measures of Gold”

Abdul Sheriff – “Globalization with a Difference”

Mtoro Bakari – “Of Slavery” (kinda)

Susan Geiger, “Tanganyikan Nationalism as Women’s Work”

Gomez Ch 9