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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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- Conforms with the requirements of EPUB Accessibility Spec v1.1
- WCAG level AA
- WCAG v2.2 compliant
- accessibility@bloomsbury.com
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The publication contains no hazards
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- No accessibility features offered by the reading system, device or reading software are disabled or otherwise unusable with the product
- Has alternative text descriptions for images
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Appearance of the text and page layout can be modified according to the capabilities of the reading system (font family and size, spaces, as well as color of background and text)
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- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
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- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
- Content is enhanced with ARIA roles to optimize organization and facilitate navigation
- Purposes of all links are made clear
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Table of Contents
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
| Published | 25 Jun 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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