STORY OF AFRICA BETWEEN WORLD WARS (1914-1945):
Part of a larger BBC World Service overview of African history.
STORY OF AFRICA: INDEPENDENCE:
Part of a larger BBC World Service overview of African history.
A COUNTRY
STUDY -- NIGERIA: A
general introduction to Nigeria from the U.S. Library of Congress.
A COUNTRY
STUDY -- SUDAN: A
general introduction to the Sudan from the U.S. Library of Congress.
: One unit within a larger British National Archives lesson plan on the
history of the British Empire.
KWAME NKRUMAH'S VISION OF AFRICA:
A BBC World Service Omnibus audio documentary on person voted by African
listeners as their "man of the millennium," Ghana's first prime minister Kwame
Nkrumah.
RWANDA GENOCIDE -- TEN YEARS ON:
A BBC special feature on the 10th anniversary of the 1994 genocide.
RWANDA -- 10 YEARS ON:
An in-depth report from the BBC documentary series Panorama.
SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA: An Open Door Web Site that highlights the late nineteenth century European push to colonize Africa.
ALGERIA
: A series of Time articles about the North African nation from the
beginnings of its war for independence from France up through 1999.
HAILE SELASSIE :
A retrospective on the famed Ethiopian emperor a quarter of a century after
his death.
MOZAMBIQUE:
A series of Time articles stretching back to 1964 that document the
former Portuguese colony's attempts to push beyond strife and suffering.
NIGERIA: An Anthology
of pieces that begin with independence in 1960 and move forward to 2000.
SIERRA LEONE :
Time chronicles the struggles of a nation whose roots lie in the
relocation of freed slaves from the British Empire to achieve political
stability.
ZIMBABWE: A selection
of Time articles traces the path through which the former British
colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980, and then highlights
President Robert Mugabe's increasing concentration of power in his own hands
in the new nation.
NEWS REPORT,
Uganda Independence, October 9, 1962: A brief audio clip from the History Channel's Speech
Archive.