Studies and Documents

During the drafting and publication period of the General History of Africa Collection, UNESCO organized scientific colloquia and symposia on topics related to the history of Africa most of which were overlooked by researchers. The results of these meetings were published in a series of books entitled “UNESCO Studies and Documents - The General History of Africa".

Twelve studies were published covering a wide range of subjects: (the Slave trade, relations between Africa and the Arab world, relations between Africa and the Indian Ocean, the role of youth and women, etc).

These complete studies are accessible free of charge and can be downloaded in electronic format (PDF).

• The General History of Africa: studies and documents 1: Symposium on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script; Cairo; 1974
• The General History of Africa: studies and documents 2: The African slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century: reports and papers of the meeting of experts organized by UNESCO at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 31 January to 4 February 1978
• The General History of Africa: studies and documents 3: Meeting of Experts on Historical Contacts between East Africa and Madagascar on the One Hand, and South East Asia on the Other, across the Indian Ocean; Port Louis; 1974
• The General History of Africa: studies and documents 4: Meeting of Experts on the Historiography of Southern Africa; Gaborone; 1977
• The General History of Africa: studies and documents 5: Meeting of Experts on the Decolonization of Africa: Southern Africa and the Horn of Africa; Warsaw; 1978
• The General History of Africa: studies and documents 6: Meeting of Experts on Ethnonyms and Toponyms; Paris; 1978
• The General History of Africa: studies and documents 7: Symposium on Historical and Socio-cultural Relations between Black Africa and the Arab World; Paris; 1979
• The General History of Africa: studies and documents 8: Meeting of Experts on the Methodology of Contemporary African History; Ouagadougou; 1979
• The General History of Africa: studies and documents 9: Symposium on the Educational Process and Historiography in Africa; Dakar; 1982
• The General history of Africa: studies and documents 10: Symposium on Africa and the Second World War; Benghazi, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; 1980
• The General history of Africa: studies and documents 11: Symposium on Libya Antiqua; Paris; 1984
• The General history of Africa: studies and documents 12: The Role of African student movements in the political and social evolution of Africa from 1900 to 1975