PATHFINDER: AFRICAN HISTORY

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Media|Web Sites

Scope: External trade had a tremendous influence on the formation of African states. From the 5th century to the 16th century empires developed including Ghana and Kanem.
The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the materials in the library available on this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with African history are listed in the Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following subject headings:

Africa-Civilization-History

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF GN 333.W67 1998 Worldmark encyclopedia of cultures and daily life

REF DT 14.A37435 1999 African: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Bergner, Daniel. In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West
Africa. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Reader, John. Africa: A Biography of the Continent. New York: vintage Books, 1999.

Rissik, Dee. Culture Shock! : South Africa. Portland, Or: Graphic Arts Center Pub. Co. 2000.

Ross, Mark. Dangerous Beauty: Life and Death in Africa: True Stories from a Safari Guide. New York: Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion, 2001.

Wood, Peter H. Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003.

MEDIA

Video DT14.A33 2001 Africa

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

History & Archaeology-Regions & Countries- Africa

Open Access Journals in History

WEB SITES

African Studies Center (University of Pennsylvania)
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/

Smithsonian Natural History Web: African Voices
http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices

Columbia University Libraries African Studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/index.html