1. A General Introduction to African Studies Jean Allman History Department Washington University

4. The Great Rift Valley

5. Early iron working from southeastern Africa

7. Great Zimbabwe

9. Ibn Battuta, 1304-1377

10. Sankore Mosque, Timbuktu

13. Mansa Musa, 1375 Spanish Map

17. Davidson Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leone You are not a country, Africa, You are a concept, Fashioned in our minds, each to each To hide our separate fears, To dream our separate dreams.

18. Africa on the Web: Recommended Gateway Sites http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html http://www.africa.upenn.edu/ http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/ http://africa.msu.edu/ http://www.newsreel.org/nav/topics.asp?cat=4 http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php http://www.africanmedia.msu.edu/ http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/index/index.htm http://allafrica.com/ http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/nalrc/ http://www.africanstudies.org/ http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHafrica.html#africa http://www.ghanaweb.com/