Has a large number of reproduced text and images from
books by early travelers in the Western Sahara desert, photographs (salt
trade, people) by Jim Mann Taylor and others, articles on the Arbre du Ténéré
now in a Niger museum, on French military forts, Saharan rock art, giraffe
engravings in Niger. Excerpts from travelers' accounts include:
Leo Africanus,
Leo Africanus on Timbuctoo
with illus. by René Caillié's and Felix Dubois,
Ibn Battuta. "The 153
Club is for Sahara Desert travellers. The Club takes its name from the old
Michelin 153 map of NW Africa." Includes book lists. Maintained by Jim Mann
Taylor, based in the U.K. http://www.manntaylor.com/153.html
Search on "Africa" to see how Africa was portrayed in 19th century U.S.
schoolbooks. Titles indexed include - Goodrich, Samuel G., "The second book of
history : including the modern history of Europe, Africa, and Asia," (Boston,
1833) and Goodrich's " The story of Captain Riley and his adventures in
Africa" (Philadelphia, 1841). A Demonstration Project by the Digital Research
Library, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/index.html
"the history of the continent from an African perspective." "from the
origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid" by major African
historians (Jacob Ajayi, George Abungu, Director-General of the National
Museums of Kenya and others). Includes audio of each segment of the BBC
program. (Requires sound card, speaker or headphone). Each segment has a
timeline, bibliography, useful links. Includes African American
explorer, George Washington Williams. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/
Rotberg, Robert I.
Biography of Burton for Grolier Electronic Publishing: http://www.manhal.com/sirrich.html
Rowena Hart, technical writer, has an extensive site about
Burton (chronology,
bibliography, Burton's wife, reviews of books about Burton, the Nile
controversy, annotated links to sites about Burton, includes photographs,:
http://vvv.com/home/rowena/srfb.htm
Peter Harris, graphic designer, has a
short biography:
http://www.geko.net.au/~harris/burton.html
Explorers and the
Empire Builders part of the Time.Gate, Zanzibar Archives web site
created by an individual who grew up in Zanzibar. On Burton, John Speke,
David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, John Kirk, William Lloyd Mathews
Isabel, Lady Burton (1831-1896). Passages from:
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton, Volume I, by Lady Isabel Burton,
edited by W. H. Wilkins. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1897. pp. 140-156.
Part of the
Celebration of Women Writers site. http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/~mmbt/women/burton/romance/chapter-I-IX.html
The Internet Movie Database information about "Mountains
of the Moon," a 1990 film about Burton and Speke: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100196
Curated by Patrick Scott, Associate University Librarian for Special
Collections. From the University of South Carolina Library, Dept. of Rare
Books & Special Collections.
In English and
Dutch. Commemorates 300 years of diplomatic relations between Ghana and the
Netherlands. Has a short history of Netherlands / Ghana relations from the
1593 arrival of the Dutch in Sao Tome and the 1701 visit of the first European
to the Ashanti Kingdom, of slavery, and present day relations. Read about
Ghanaians in Holland (their organizations, the 16,000 people of Ghanaian
origin living in the Netherlands). Has short video clips from Back to
Kotoka, a soap opera about Ghanaians in Holland, articles on
(Ghana's forts and the slave trade, a
slave who defended the slave trade,
Ghanaians in search of their Dutch Ancestors,
funerals in Ghana), a piece on Arthur Japin's book, The two hearts of
Kwasi Boachi', a piece on
Dutch wax textiles with a link to the
Vlisco companies. There is a
schedule of events
including the visit of Crown Prince William to Ghana, a
booklet, in Dutch, on Ghanaians in Holland, the
photographer Philip Kwame Apagya, a selection of
historical photos taken between 1880 and 1890, and many more articles. [KF]
http://www.ghana300holland.nl/
Has full-text sources for African history arranged by topics. Includes a
page from
Vasco da Gama's Africa to India travels, and many other historical topics.
Maintained by Paul Halsall, Fordham
University. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
Reading About the World, Vol. 2. Edited by Paul Brians,
Mary Gallwey, Douglas Hughes, Azfar Hussain, Richard Law, Michael Myers
Michael Neville, Roger Schlesinger, Alice Spitzer, and Susan Swan has
excerpts,
Leo, Africanus: Description of Timbuktu, African proverbs, etc. http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/contents_vol_2.html
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch
of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the
Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent,
Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. (London, 1857). Full-text
of the book. Part of Project Gutenberg. Includes an 1858 review of the book in
Harper's Magazine. [KF] http://ubh.tripod.com/etext/liv0.htm
About National Geographic's TV program. Has graphics from The Life and
Work of David Livingstone (1900). In the "40....views" section, click on
the little red TV at the top to see photos from the TV program.Send a postcard
of Livingstone being attacked by a lion!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lantern/welcome.html
The Corbett Rooms, Longnor Hall, Longnor, Shrewsbury, SY5 7PZ, U.K.
Phone: +44 (0)1743 718367 Fax: +44 (0)1743 354699
Contact: Paul Wilson
Email: paul@africana.co.uk
Specializes in antiquarian and out-of-print books on Africa and the Middle
East. Offers large collections to institutions. Has a special African studies
collection with an introduction by J.D. Fage, Professor Emeritus of African
History, University of Birmingham. Fage's introduction (in 7 parts) covers the
history of Africana,
African studies. http://africana.co.uk/collections/
"Written by a Greek resident of Alexandria in Egypt during the first
century BCE, this text is one of the oldest surviving accounts of the
countries on Africa's east coast." Part of the course "WORLD CIVILIZATION
101Q, Remote Learning on the World Wide Web" Designed and taught by George
Ouwendijk and Bill Rednour, at the History Department, The City College of New
York.
Site by Patricia Seed, Professor of History at Rice University,
illustrating Portuguese and Spanish overseas exploration in the 15th century,
includes 15th-16th century maps, examples of ships used, the conditions for
explorers of the era. See also the History of Cartography page by the British
Library Map Librarian, Tony Campbell :
http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/maps/
"...English translation of the Sudan portion of Theodoro Krump's Hoher
und Fruchtbarer Palm-Baum des Heiligen Evangelij (Augsburg: Georg Schulter
& Martin Happach, 1710)" "...Krump's account of Sinnar between 1700
and 1702 is in many respects the most important single written source
concerning the precolonial history of the Sudan." Covers
commerce in slaves, Sudanese medical practices, Sudanese relations with
Ethiopia, etc. Dr.
Spaulding teaches in the History Dept., Kean University, Union, New
Jersey. [KF] http://www.kean.edu/~history/krump2home.html
Speke (1868; Dover, 1996). Reviewed by Sean Redmond in The Journal of
African Travel-Writing, Number 3, September 1997 (pp. 87-91)
Stanley, Henry Morton
"Is
he not in Congo-land? Excerpts from the writings of the
nineteenth-century explorer Henry Morton Stanley." From The Atlantic,
Sept. 1996. Includes a biography. http://www2.theatlantic.com/atlantic/issues/96sep/congo/stanley.htm
A tutorial with a section on
African
exploration. Includes Prince Henry the Navigator, Portugal, the
Sugar and
Slave Trades. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/eurvoya/index.html
In Portuguese and English. Has a short biography "Vasco
da Gama, Navigator and Warrior 1468 (?) - 1524" by Fernando
Correia da Silva, translated by John D. Godinho, a biography of
D. João II
by Carlos Loures. "...we intend to tell the story of an endless number of
Portuguese-speaking people, regardless of nationality, who contributed
significantly to a human endeavor, to a country or to an era. Each biography
will observe historical accuracy mixed with a touch of imagination..." Site
coordenação de Fernando Correia da Silva. http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/
