Ancient Egypt

• Great Hymn to Akhenaten

The African Kingdoms

• Glimpses of Ghana - Al-Bakir - 1067

• Decades of the New World - Richard Eden - 1555  

• The Description of Africa - Leo Africanus - 1526

• Art of Benin and Ile-Ife 

• Great Zimbabwe

Slavery

• Slave Trade Documents - John Barbot - 1732

• Diagram of the slave ship Brooks

• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano - 1789

• Conditions on an English Slavery - Alexander Falconbridge 1788

• HistoryWiz Slavery Book Collection  

Imperialism

• Confession of Faith - Cecil Rhodes - 1877

• The White Man’s Burden - Rudyard Kipling - 1899

• The Black Man’s Burden - Edward Morel - 1903

• The Economic Bases of Imperialism   - John Hobson - 1902

• Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Lenin - 1916  

Colonial Africa

• How I Found Dr. Livingstone - Henry Stanley - 1871

• On Empire and Education - Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800-1859

• Punch cartoon of Cecil Rhodes straddling the continent

• African Proverbs

• The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 1902 

• The Belgian Congo Forced Labor System

• Punch cartoon criticizing the brutal rule of Belgian King Leopold II

• Zulu City Umgungundhlovu

• Construction of the Suez Canal 1869

• HistoryWiz South Africa Book Collection

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Africa

Imperialism

Slavery

That Magnificent African Cake - an exhibit on the Congo Free State

Bitter Union - The Story of South Africa - an exhibit on South Africa