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Africa: Books for Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

David Killingray
Affiliation:
Goldsmiths' College

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Review Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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1 Ajayi, J. F. Ade, ‘The place of African History and culture in the process of nation-building in Africa south of the Sahara’, Journal of Negro Education, xxx, iii (1960), 206–13Google Scholar. Denoon, Donald and Kuper, Adam, ‘The ″New Historiography″ in Dar es Salaam’, African Affairs, lxx, no. 277 (10 1970), 329–49CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and the reply by Ranger, Terence in African Affairs, lxx, no. 278 (01 1971), 5061.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Ajayi, J. F. Ade and Espie, Ian, eds., A Thousand years of West African History (Ibadan and London, 1965)Google Scholar; Anene, Joseph C. and Brown, Godfrey, eds., Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Ibadan and London, 1966)Google Scholar; Kimambo, I. N. and Temu, A. J., eds., A History of Tanzania (Nairobi, 1969).Google Scholar

3 Parker, G. and Pfukani, P., History of Southern Africa (London, 1974)Google Scholar. In a book intended for British sixth forms by the veteran liberal senator Brookes, Edgar, Apartheid. A Documentary Study of Modern South Africa (London, 1968)Google Scholar, none of the forty or so documents and extracts is by a black voice.

4 Roberts, A. D., Safari: records of East Africa's Past (Lusaka, 1971)Google Scholar; Killingray, Margaret, The Manding of West Africa (Oxford, 1974).Google Scholar

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6 Killingray, Margaret, ed., African Studies: A Handbook for Teachers (SOAS, London, 1979).Google Scholar

7 Forge, Ken, ‘Teaching Black Studies’, The Times Educational Supplement (26 10. 1973)Google Scholar. For a US survey of students’ attitudes see Hicks, E. Perry and Beyer, Barry K., ‘Images of Africa’, Social Education, xxxii, vii (Dec. 1968), 779–84.Google Scholar

8 Hammond, Dorothy and Jablow, Alta, in The Myth of Africa (New York, 1977)Google Scholar, look at the Western fantasy of Africa through four hundred years of British fiction and non-fiction; see also White, Lydia, ‘School textbooks and the Third World’, Impact (08 1971)Google Scholar, and Killingray, David, ‘African history in the classroom’, Teaching History, xvii (02 1977)Google Scholar. Wilson, Angene, ‘Taking Tarzan out of the textbooks’, Africa Report (05 1968)Google Scholar, provides a US example, while one from Switzerland is by Bernard, Norbert, ‘Afrika an Unserer Schulen’, Genève-Afrique, xvi, i (19771978), 4465.Google Scholar

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10 House of Lords Debates, 17 04 1978 cols. 871–5Google Scholar, and 24 May 1978 cols. 1013–34.