Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing 'Africa' / Jennifer E. Coffman -- Africa: which way forward?: an interdisciplinary approach / Todd Cleveland -- Why we need African history / Kathleen Smythe -- Answering the 'so what' question: making African history relevant in the provincial college classroom / Gary Marquardt -- From African history to African histories: teaching interdisciplinary method, philosophy, and ethics through the African history survey / Trevor R. Getz -- Treating the exotic and the familiar in the African history classroom / Ryan Ronnenberg -- Postcolonial perspectives on teaching African politics in Wales and Ireland / Carl Death -- Pan-Africanism: the ties that bind Ghana and the United States / Harry Nii Koney Odamtten -- The importance of the regional concept: the case for an undergraduate regional geography course of Sub-Saharan Africa / Matthew Waller -- Teach me about Africa: facilitating and training educators toward a socially just curriculum / Durene I. Wheeler and Jeanine Ntihirageza -- Inversion rituals: the African novel in the global North / Catherine Kroll -- Teaching Africa through a comparative pedagogy: South Africa and the United States / Ren�ee Schatteman -- Stereotypes, myths, and realities regarding African music in the African and American academy / Jean Ngoya Kidula -- What paltry learning in dumb books!: teaching the power of oral narrative / Caleb Corkery -- Teaching about Africa: violence and conflict management / Linda M. Johnston and Oumar Ch�erif Diop -- Contextualizing the teaching of Africa in the 21st century: a student-centered pedagogical approach to demystify Africa as the heart of darkness / Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson -- Shaping U.S.-based activism towards Africa: the role of a mix of critical pedagogies / Amy C. Finnegan -- The Model AU as pedagogical method of teaching American students about Africa / Babacar M'baye -- The Kalamazoo/Fourah Bay College partnership: a context for understanding study abroad with Africa / Daniel J. Paracka, Jr -- Teaching culture, health, and political economy in the field: ground-level perspectives on Africa in the 21st century / James Ellison -- Beyond the biologic basis of disease: collaborative study of the social and economic causation of disease in Africa / Amy C. Finnegan, Julian Jane Atim, and Michael Westerhaus -- Educating the educators: Ethiopian IT Ph.D. program / Solomon Negash and Julian M. Bass -- Conclusion: knowledge circulation and diasporic interfacing / Toyin Falola.

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