Exploring the History & Cultures of Ghana, Africa & The Atlantic World

http://ecoethics.net/2014-ENVRE120/20220227-EV&N-425-Link.html

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This is a brief review of some recent initiatives in the study of the history and cultures of Ghana and Africa in the evolution of the Atlantic World undertaken for the Ghana Studies Association (GSA).

For further information on Kwame Akoto-Bamfo see:

• Kwame Akoto-Bamfo – Art & Building Restorative Justice Across the African Diaspora
• The sculpture of slavery
• Ghana’s sea of sculpted slave heads commemorate slave trade, 400 years on
• Ancestor Project Funding Campaign
• How An Artist Uses Sculpture to tell African History | African Art Series
• Bringing the faces of the transatlantic slave trade to life | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson
• Kwame Akoto Bamfo ‘You see the faces of our ancestors’
• Nkyinkyim Sculpture at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice

For the article about Kwame Akoto-Bamfo by Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann see:

• Kwame Akoto-Bamfo and Building Restorative Justice Across the African Diaspora – Monument Lab – Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann

For further information about the work of Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, see:

• Rachel Engmann, Hampshire College – The Archaeology of the Slaver in Eighteenth Cent ury Ghana – The Academic Minute
• Up-close with Prof. Ama Asaa Engmann. (PhD Stanford University)
• ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION IN OSU CASTLE, ACCRA-GHANA: RECOUNTING GHANA’S HISTORY
• A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle’s history — and her own | The World from PRX
• Christianborg Archaeological Heritage Project (CAHP)
• Archaeological Excavation in Osu Castle, Accra-Ghana: Recounting Ghana’s History
• A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle’s history — and her own | Public Radio International

For information on Dr. Vincent Brown and his important work on the “Atlantic Slave War,” see: ‘Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War’    as well as:

• Vincent Brown
• Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761
• History Design Studio

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: “We Are 99.9% the Same” | Amanpour and Company
• Black in Latin America E02, Brazil: A Racial Paradise
• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (Episode 1) – The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)
• AFRICA’S GREAT CIVILIZATIONS | Interview with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | PBS
• ‘Frederick Douglass in Five Speeches’: A conversation with David Blight and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Why we’re overdue to know the brilliance of Africa’s civilizations
• How Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Helped Remake the Literary Canon | The New Yorker

And further resources.

The Afriterra Cartographic Free Library (Afriterra.Org) is online and available for scholars and students from around the world for consultation, research and reference.  It is an highly valuable resource for African historians and anthropologists from all over the globe.

Maps referred to in this video are available through their online catalog:

• Afriterra Maps Catalog – Map Details – 512
• Afriterra Maps Catalog – Map Details – 3562
• Afriterra Maps Catalog – Map Details – 3561
• Afriterra Maps Catalog – Map Details – 987
• Afriterra Maps Catalog – Map Details – 390
• Afriterra Maps Catalog – Map Details – 625

See related:

• A Short Overview of Emerging Digital Technologies for Research & Teaching in African History & Cultural Studies
• Commerce and Cartography on Colonial Frontiers: Reexamining American & African History ~ through Maps
• Recalling Some Aspects of America’s Immigration Policies in Black History Month | EV & N – 238 – CCTV
• A Tribute to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. …a Cambridge~Global Living Legend
• The Historical Origins, Evolution and Future Dimensions of Africa’s Recurrent Food Crises
• Old Maps & New Narratives: Digitizing Historical Maps to Analyze New Dimensions of the Atlantic Trade
• The Globalization of Food Production and the Origins of Africa’s Food Crisis
• Castles and Dungeons on the Coasts and Islands: Retracing Some Steps in the Atlantic Trade
• The Atlantic Trade and Africa: The Portuguese, the Spanish & the Dutch – Part 1
• The Atlantic Trade and Africa: The Portuguese, the Spanish & the Dutch – Part 2
• Old Maps, Picks and Shovels: Steps Toward An Archaeology of the Atlantic Slave Trade 
• Historical Cartography and the Archaeology of the Atlantic Trade
• A New Look at Old Maps: The Islands, the “Prior Plantations” and the Provisioning of the African Maritime Trade

as well as:

• Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery’s ‘Hard History’ : NPR
• Whitney Plantation museum confronts painful history of slavery
• Why America Needs a Slavery Museum

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