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Africa's Lagging Development, by Jason Beaubien

Alex Williams, "Into Africa" (New York Times, August 18, 2006)

Horton, Richard, "Ghana: defining the African challenge" (The Lancet, Vol. 358, Dec. 22/29, 2001, pp. 2141-2149)

Panel Suggests Brown U. Atone for Ties to Slavery by Pam Belluck

The Case for Contamination by Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York Times Magazine, Jan. 1, 2006)

Ghana's Uneasy Embrace of Slavery's Diaspora by Lydia Polgreen (New York Times, Dec. 27, 2005

Panel discussion on the effectiveness of foreign aid, with Nicholas Kristof (Federal News Service, May 12, 2006)

This link opens a word document.

Preaching free-market gospel to a skeptical Africa by Jason DeParle (New York Times, November 18, 2006)

China’s African Adventure by James Traub (New York Times, November 19, 2006)

Africa's World of Forced Labor, in a 6-Year-Old's Eyes by Sharon LaFraniere (New York Times, October 29, 2006

The fate of Africa

Author: Meredith, Martin.

Publisher: New York : Public Affairs, c2005.

Consider especially the Introduction and Chapter 10, "Feet of Clay."

African voices of the Atlantic slave trade

Author: Bailey, Anne C.

Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, c2005.

Read chapter 5, "European and American Agency in the Atlantic Slave Trade."

Representing African music

Author: Agawu, V. Kofi

Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2003.

Look at chapter 1, "Colonialism's Impact."

Allafrica.com

Online resources for Ghana from African Studies Center

Languages of Ghana

The Story of Africa from the BBC online

Timeline: Early history of Africa

Timeline: Slavery

Timeline: European colonialism in Africa

Timeline: Independence

Ghana from the CIA World Factbook