Student Bibliography and Teacher Resources
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.
Chamberlain, M.E. The Scramble for Africa: Seminar Studies. London and New
York: Longman, 1999.The collection provides additional background on European colonialism in Africa.
Monmonier, Mark. How to Lie with Maps. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996.The chapters I read helped me understand how maps can distort or clarify information.
Whitaker, Robert. The Mapmaker's Wife. New York: Delta, 2005.This novel puts a human face on cartographers and cartography.
Woodard, David and J. B. Harley. History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 3. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1987. This text is an interesting and detailed examination of indigenous mapmaking. Answered my question: Did Africans make their own maps?
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