Teaching About Africa

For excellent resources and teaching strategies for challenging stereotypes and teaching about Africa, we recommend the sites below.
  • Africa Access: Literature recommendations, student research projects, and a detailed database with critiques of hundreds of children's books and texts on Africa. Coordinates the annual Children’s Africana Book Award.
  • African Studies K-12 Outreach Programs: University based programs which provide resources and professional development for teachers.
  • H-AfrTeach: A discussion list which provides a forum on teaching about Africa at all educational levels.
  • Masifunde Sonke Book Project: An education initiative of South Africa Partners promotes children’s literature from the new South Africa. For each book purchased in the United States, South Africa Partners donates a second copy of the same book to a rural or township school in South Africa. 
  • TransAfrica Forum: Up to date news and opportunities for action regarding US policy towards the countries of Africa.
  • What Do We Want Children to Learn About Africa?: This short article by Margy Burns Knight shares disturbing examples of how contemporary resources for children, including a National Geographic classroom poster, exotify Africans. The article includes the outline for an effective professional development workshop.