History
Africa
Documents
- Pyramid Texts (ca. 2494–2193 BCE)
- “Instructions of Ptahhotep” (ca. 2200 BCE)
- “Hymn to the Nile” (ca. 1990–1950 BCE)
- Egyptian Book of the Dead (ca. 1569–1315 BCE)
- Victory Stela of Piankhi (725 BCE)
- Herodotus: “On Libya” (ca. 450–420 BCE)
- Aristotle: Constitution of Carthage (ca. 320s BCE)
- Inscription of Ezana (ca. 350)
- Nzinga Mbemba's Appeal to the King of Portugal (1526)
- Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (1788)
- Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves (1807)
- Peter Williams, Jr.: "Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade" (1808)
- Diplomatic Correspondence between Muhammad al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello (1810–1812)
- James Monroe's Special Message to the Senate on the Slave Trade Convention with Great Britain (1824)
- Proposal for the Establishment of a Native Army (1830)
- Moshweshewe, Chief of the Basutos: Letter to Sir George Grey (1858)
- Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (1862)
- Constitution of the Fante Confederacy (1871)
- Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa (1920)
- A. B. Xuma: “Bridging the Gap between White and Black in South Africa” (1930)
- Jomo Kenyatta: “The Kenya Africa Union Is Not the Mau Mau” (1952)
- A. L. Geyer: “The Case for Apartheid” (1953)
- Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front (1954)
- Freedom Charter of South Africa (1955)
- Patrice Lumumba: Speech at the Proclamation of Congolese Independence (1960)
- Kwame Nkrumah: I Speak of Freedom (1961)
- Arusha Declaration (1967)
- Steve Biko: “Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity” (1973)
- Desmond Tutu: “The Question of South Africa” (1984)
- Nelson Mandela: “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom” (1990)
- Constitution of Rwanda (1991)
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address (1994)
- Wole Soyinka: “Towards a Sustainable Vision of Nigeria” (1996)
- UN Human Rights Report on Zaire (1996)
- Constitutive Act of the African Union (2000)
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (2004)
