ABSTRACT
There has been a considerable increase in the output of books on Africa and also an important change in emphasis. Most British schools will wish to consider Africa in Modern Studies courses, but a significant number are also willing to read about the Nok culture in Nigeria, follow the travels of Ibn Battuta, or study some of the great African kingdoms of the past. Such schools will find useful introductory studies in B. Davidson, Guide to African History or in Zoe Marsh and P. Collister, The Teaching of African History, which gives a rapid summary of the subject and then concentrates on East Africa. Individual countries are also well served. For Nigeria there is the old-established Sir A. Burns, A History of Nigeria. W. E. F. Ward, A Short History of Ghana was a pioneer attempt to put the African point of view when it was first published in 1935, and it is still a useful book.
