Teaching about Africa south of the Sahara in American secondary schools is often severely limited or ignored altogether because most teachers believe there is an inadequate number of instructional materials available for use in the classroom. Fortunately, this belief is erroneous.

Project Africa, a U.S.O.E. -funded social studies curriculum development center at The Ohio State University, has recently completed an examination of commercially prepared materials currently available for instructional use at the secondary level. In so doing, the Project has located and identified a number of up-to-date, well-structured and generally accurate materials which have the potential for easy adaptation to virtually any type of study about this region as well as to any teaching style.