Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence

by William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark, Edward A. Alpers

Primary source documents are valuable learning resources preferred by many teachers because they give student the chance to decipher and interpret the history themselves. Africa and the West presents a range of hard-to-find primary source documents on Africa from the slave trade that started in the early part of the fifteenth century to independence and the problems of the post-colonial period.

400 pages, Hardcover

First published January 30, 2001