2008-2009 TOPIC: Sub-Saharan Africa: Out of the Past; Into the Future

Primary Reading Selection: KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild.

 

Mariner Books . ISBN 978-0618001903 (0618001905)
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Additional Primary Resource: CRY FREEDOM 1987 (movie).

Nation Information: draft list (5/2/08)
This information will be for the second portion of the test.
www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

Background notes for the following nations:
Angola
Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)
Kenya
South Africa Zimbabwe

Additional Helpful Web Sites: draft list (5/2/08)

• World Bank Sub-Saharan Africa section of the World Bank website
  http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,menuPK:258649~pagePK:158889~piPK:146815~theSitePK:258644,00.html
• United Nations AIDS information
  http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResponses/Regions/SubSaharanAfrica.asp
• UN report on the progress report on declaration of commitments on HIV and AIDS
  http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2008/south_africa_2008_country_progress_report_en.pdf
• Interactive map
  http://www.worldmap.org/region.php?region=Sub-Saharan%20Africa
• Political map
  http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/africapol.pdf
• Countries map
  http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/africaa.htm
• Blank outline map
  http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/afoutl.htm
• Major landforms map
  http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/aflnd.htm
• Countries with capital cities
  http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/maps/africa.htm
• CIA World Fact Book information regarding specific nations
  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/notesanddefs.html
• The following link provides interactive links to various regions of Africa with general information about specific nations
  http://africanhistory.about.com/od/eraindependence/l/bl-AtlasOfIndependence.htm
• The following is an interesting bit of information about the recent history of Africa from an African perspective
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/
• General information related to the specific nations as well as continental issues
  http://www.infoplease.com/
• Link to the PBS special regarding Congo by Bill Moyers
  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04042008/profile2.html