Historic Documents of Africa
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This volume explores critical aspects of African history, from early civilizations to the colonial era to independence and nation-building in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It includes key primary documents, from letters and
speeches to government documents and royal edicts. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for
historical research.
This volume explores critical aspects of African history, from early civilizations to the colonial era to independence and nation-building in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It includes key primary documents, from letters and
speeches to government documents and royal edicts. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for
historical research.
Contents
“Hymn to the Nile”
Nebmare-nakht: A Scribal Schoolbook
Herodotus: “On Libya”
Aristotle: Constitution of Carthage
Inscription of Ezana
Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa
Nzinga Mbemba: Appeal to the King of Portugal
Leo Africanus: The History and Description of Africa
Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Proposal for the Establishment of a Native Army
Moshweshewe, Chief of the Basutos: Letter to Sir George Grey
Constitution of the Fante Confederacy
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Edmund Dene (E.D.) Morel: The Black Man’s Burden
Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa
A. B. Xuma: “Bridging the Gap between White and Black in South Africa”
Jomo Kenyatta: “The Kenya Africa Union Is Not the Mau Mau”
A. L. Geyer: “The Case for Apartheid”
Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front
Freedom Charter of South Africa
Patrice Lumumba: Speech at the Proclamation of Congolese Independence
Kwame Nkrumah: I Speak of Freedom
Arusha Declaration
Yoruba Praise Poem to Sango
Steve Biko: “Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity”
Desmond Tutu: “The Question of South Africa”
Nelson Mandela: “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom”
Constitution of Rwanda
Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address
Wole Soyinka: “Towards a Sustainable Vision of Nigeria”
UN Human Rights Report on Zaire
Constitutive Act of the African Union
