Pre-Colonial Africa Resources

This Presentation contains a list of websites that can be used to create a Pre-Colonial Africa Unit

http://www.negroartist.com/precolonial%20africa1/index.html

Website Gallery for pre-colonial Africa

Steps of Literary Portrait Project

Step one-We can have the students go to this websiteStep two- each student picks out a picture to do a picture analysis onStep three- Students write literary portraits using a rubric to guide them-they write historical fiction based on their picture. Students will write from the point of view of someone in their pictureStep four-Students will display their picture in front of the class using the website and they will read their literary portrait!

African Cavalry and Foot Soldiers, Senegambia, 1818 Gaspard T Mollien, Travels in the Interior of Africa, to the Sources of the Senegal and Gambia(London, 1820)

Example of picture from gallery:

http://org.newtrier.k12.il.us/academics/faculty/muir/africa04/pd6/g8/Pre-Colonial.htm

Pre - Colonial Rwanda

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aftr/hd_aftr.htm

Trade Relations among European and African Nations

Necklace with Pendant, 16th–18th centuryAngola; ChokweWood, ceramic, raffia H. 11 in. (27.94 cm)Gift of Herbert Weiss, 1996 (1996.456)

http://www.sahistory.org.za/liberation-struggle-south-africa/colonial-conquest-and-resistance-pre-1900

Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900

http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/teachers/curriculum/m10/activity2.php

• Unit Two: Studying Africa through the Social Studies

• Module Ten: African Politics and Government• Teacher's Edition• Activity Two-Explore

Types of Government In Pre-Colonial Africa

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3172148?uid=3739776&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101255738087

"What Do You Mean There Were No Tribes in Africa ... - JStor

http://www.iohanet.org/journal/archive/Vol4/lee.pdf

How to Do Things with Words: African Oral History and Its Textual Incarnations

Christopher J. LeeUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

http://www.ehow.com/video_4997816_pre_colonial-african-inventions.html

Video -About Pre-Colonial African Inventions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp6P_hBnF1s

BBC.Lost Kingdoms of Africa. Nubia. 1/6