African Words, African Voices considers African history as an art incorporating the experience and testimony of ordinary Africans. It is a provoative volume that evokes the richness and relevance of oral sources for understanding a complex past.

Presents writings from Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and other parts of Africa, with biographical information about the authors, discussion questions, and writing prompts.

Explores how to use different types of sources to write the history of slavery and the slave trade in Africa.

This book uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade.