evidence based essay about why (society, students, policy makers, care or should care about a specific theme from our class.could be African creativity, African power, exploitation of African societies, false representation of African pasts, etc.

use at least two least four primary sources and at least four secondary sources. They should support their argument with specifics, much as they would in any formal essay. The argument should also build—as all good arguments do. And they must cite because credibility and complexity (should) matter outside the classroom, too. 

 

are also free to make links between personal and community life more prominently—indeed, a central part of their argument— than is normally part of academic analysis. 

 

possible sources

Anthony Brundage, “The Ever-Changing Nature and Shape of the Past,” in Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing

 

Anthony Brundage, “The Nature and Variety of Historical Sources,” in Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing

            Olesegun Oladipo, “Religion in African Cultures: Some Conceptual Issues”

Kwasi Konadu, “Naming and Framing a Crime Against Humanity: African Voices from the Transatlantic Slave System, ca. 1500-1900”

Susan Geiger, “Tanganyikan Nationalism as Women’s Work,” in Readings in Gender in Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), 158-168.

 

Nanjala Nyabola, “Africa for Beginners,” in Traveling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move