HIST 3531 - History of Africa since 1800: Find Books
This guide contains library and web-based information for students enrolled in HIST 3531: History of Africa since 1800.
Recent Acquisitions
African Activists of the Twentieth Century
An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history. Chris Hani, by Hugh Macmillan Chris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party, and uMkhonto we Sizwe. His assassination in 1993 threatened to upset the country's transition to democracy and prompted an intervention by Nelson Mandela that ultimately accelerated apartheid's demise. Wangari Maathai, by Tabitha Kanogo This concise biography tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to campaigning for environmental conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty. Josie Mpama/Palmer: Get Up and Get Moving, by Robert R. Edgar Highly critical of the patriarchal attitudes that hindered Black women's political activism, South Africa's Josie Mpama/Palmer was an outspoken advocate for women's social and political equality, a member of the Communist Party of South Africa, and an antiapartheid activist. Ken Saro-Wiwa, by Roy Doron and Toyin Falola A penetrating, accessible portrait of the Nigerian activist whose execution galvanized the world. Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr and symbolized modern Africans' struggle against military dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation.
Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation.
A new biography of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, one of the most influential political figures in twentieth-century African history.As the first prime minister and president of the West African state of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah helped shape the global narrative of African decolonization. After leading Ghana to independence in 1957, Nkrumah articulated a political vision that aimed to free the country and the continent—politically, socially, economically, and culturally—from the vestiges of European colonial rule, laying the groundwork for a future in which Africans had a voice as equals on the international stage.Nkrumah spent his childhood in the maturing Gold Coast colonial state. During the interwar and wartime periods he was studying in the United States. He emerged in the postwar era as one of the foremost activists behind the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress and the demand for an immediate end to colonial rule.Jeffrey Ahlman's biography plots Nkrumah's life across several intersecting networks: colonial, postcolonial, diasporic, national, Cold War, and pan-African. In these contexts, Ahlman portrays Nkrumah not only as an influential political leader and thinker but also as a charismatic, dynamic, and complicated individual seeking to make sense of a world in transition.
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Browse Call Numbers
Georgia Southern University Libraries uses the Library of Congress (LOC) Call Number system. If you want to browse the shelves start on the third and fourth floor of Zach S. Henderson Library and look for these call number ranges:
| BL 2400-2490 | African Religions |
| BP 64 | Islam in Africa |
| BR 1360-1470 | Christianity in Africa |
| BV 3500-3630 | Missions in Africaa |
| DT 1-3516 | African History |
| GN 643-661 GN 861-865 |
African Anthropology, and Archaeology |
| GR 350-360 | African Folklore |
| HC 501-599 HC 800-1085 |
African Economic Conditions |
| J 700-899 | African Colonial Era Government Documents |
| JQ 1870-3981 | Political Institutions and Public Administration, Africa |
| PJ 2301-2615 | Hamitic languages spoken in Africa, including Berber and Tuareg languages |
| PJ 8900-9300 | Semitic languages spoken in Africa, including Arabic, Somali and Ethiopian languages |
| PL 8000-8844 | African Languages and Literature |
| PQ 3980-3989.2 | African Literature in French |
| PR 9340-9408 | African Literature in English |
| PT 6500-6593 | Afrikaans Literature |
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