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Accessible Africa

Teaching and Learning About an Unfamiliar Past

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Accessible Africa

Teaching and Learning About an Unfamiliar Past

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Accessible Africa: Teaching and Learning About an Unfamiliar Pastprovides educators ranging from middle school to high school an accessible account of the major developments in African history, paired with pedagogical strategies and approaches related to teaching the continent's past. Based on decades of teaching African history at the collegiate and high school levels, it became clear to Cleveland and Panzer that most students had learned very little about Africa – beyond the Transatlantic Slave Trade – prior to arriving in their classrooms. This absence is not surprising, as educators readily admit that they do not feel comfortable teaching about Africa because they feel both unqualified and uninformed. Accessible Africa addresses these issues by providing both accessible content and associated teaching strategies related toroughly the past 5,000 years of African history, up to and including contemporary developments on the continent. Major historical themes include trade routes, slave trades, imperialism and colonialism, decolonization, and modern Africa.

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  • WCAG level AA
  • WCAG v2.2 compliant
  • accessibility@bloomsbury.com

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  • No accessibility features offered by the reading system, device or reading software are disabled or otherwise unusable with the product
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Table of Contents

List of figures
List of maps
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ancient and Medieval Africa, c. 3000 BCE-1500 CE
Chapter 2: The Slave Trades in African History
Chapter 3: The Gradual, then Rapid, European “Scramble” for Africa
Chapter 4: Consolidating and Maintaining Control in African Territories
Chapter 5: Decolonizing Africa
Chapter 6: Africa in the late Twentieth Century, 1960's-1990s
Epilogue: Africa in the 21st Century: Which Way Forward

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jun 25 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 208
ISBN 9781475874587
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 15 b/w figures
Series Teaching History Today and in the Future
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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