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High School Social Studies resource list for 2008 - 2009

  
 

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

Primary Resources:

King Leopold's Ghost:  A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

"Cry Freedom" 1987 (movie

Nation Information

Gale PowerSearch (country information / also use news and magazine tabs for current information)

Facts On File - World Atlas  (country information and maps:  political, outline, etc)

ABC-CLIO

 

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/ provides background notes for the following nations:  Angola, Kenya, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshas), Zimbabwe at

 

Additional Resources:

  

World Bank:  Sub-Saharan Africa section of the World Bank Web site:  World Bank:  Sub-Saharan Africa

Interactive Map

United Nations AIDS information

Country Maps

UN report on the progress report on declaration of commitments on HIV and AIDS

Political Maps

CIA World Fact Book

Blank Outline Map

Interactive links to various regions of Africa with general information about specific nations:  http://africanhistory.about.com/od/eraindependence/l/bl-AtlasOfIndependence.htm

 Major landforms Map

Countries with capital cities

Information about the recent history of Africa from an African perspective:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/

PBS special regarding Congo by Bill Moyers:  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04042008/profile2.html

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