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Africa
Africana & Black History
New York Public Library's free, searchable database of 275,000 photographs and manuscripts from its collection.
American Africans in Ghana: Black expatriates and the civil rights era
Call Number DT510.43 .A37 G35 2006, this is a superb, scholarly text on pan-Africanism. Kevin Gaines gives a detailed analysis of the interconnections between African American and Caribbean activists and the pioneers of African decolonization in Ghana.
Encyclopedia of African History
Available on-line through CREDO Reference, this reference book covers the entire continent from Morocco, Libya, and Egypt in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in the south, and the surrounding islands from Cape Verde in the west to Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles in the east.
Historical Abstracts - EBSCO
Indexing and abstracts of over 2,100 scholarly journals in world history, from 1492 to the present, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Links to some full text where available.
Middle passages : African American journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
Call number DT12.25 .C36 2006 this book is not about Africa, but rather about the role that Africa played in the mind's eye of African Americans who returned to their ancestral continent to answer the question "who am I?"
Nigeria's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook
Available on-line through CREDO Reference, and exploring the history of ethnic, regional and religious diversity in Nigeria, this volume traces most of the country's current problems to its colonial exploitation.
In many ways Nigeria is a nation in name only, struggling to unite its diverse population. But age-old tribal hostilities are not solely to blame. The conflicts among Nigeria's major ethnic groups are also the legacy of European colonial influence as well as present-day political culture and ethnoregionalism.
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Available on-line through Oxford Reference Online this is an excellent resource for the 1,100 years of Byzantine history spanning from the 4th to the 15th century.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Available on-line through Oxford Reference Online this reference work "goes far beyond the records of archaeology to make available what we know about the full social, political, religious, cultural and artistic legacy of this 5,000-year civilization."
South Africa's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook
Available on-line through CREDO Reference, this authoritative work examines 500 years of interaction between the races in a country that during the apartheid era became a byword for racial disharmony.
