1. Pre-Colonial Africa Resources This Presentation contains a list of websites that can be used to create a Pre-Colonial Africa Unit

2. http://www.negroartist.com/precolonial%20africa1/index.html Website Gallery for pre-colonial Africa Steps of Literary Portrait Project Step one-We can have the students go to this website Step two- each student picks out a picture to do a picture analysis on Step three- Students write literary portraits using a rubric to guide them-they write historical fiction based on their picture. Students will write from the point of view of someone in their picture Step four-Students will display their picture in front of the class using the website and they will read their literary portrait!

3. African Cavalry and Foot Soldiers, Senegambia, 1818 Gaspard T Mollien, Travels in the Interior of Africa, to the Sources of the Senegal and Gambia(London, 1820) Example of picture from gallery:

4. http://org.newtrier.k12.il.us/academics/faculty/muir/africa04/pd6/ g8/Pre-Colonial.htm Pre - Colonial Rwanda

5. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd /aftr/hd_aftr.htm Trade Relations among European and African Nations Necklace with Pendant, 16th–18th century Angola; Chokwe Wood, ceramic, raffia H. 11 in. (27.94 cm) Gift of Herbert Weiss, 1996 (1996.456)

6. http://www.sahistory.org.za/liberation-struggle-south-africa/colonial- conquest-and-resistance-pre-1900 Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900

7. http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/teachers/curriculum/m10/activity2.php Unit Two: Studying Africa through the Social Studies Module Ten: African Politics and Government Teacher's Edition Activity Two-Explore Types of Government In Pre-Colonial Africa

8. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3172148?uid=3739776&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=373925 6&sid=21101255738087 "What Do You Mean There Were No Tribes in Africa... - JStor

9. http://www.iohanet.org/journal/archi ve/Vol4/lee.pdf How to Do Things with Words: African Oral History and Its Textual Incarnations Christopher J. Lee University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

10. http://www.ehow.com/video_499781 6_pre_colonial-african-inventions.html Video -About Pre-Colonial African Inventions

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp 6P_hBnF1s BBC.Lost Kingdoms of Africa. Nubia. 1/6