Criteria for Evaluating Precollegiate Teaching Materials on Africa

Abstract

Since 1960 the United States has been emerging from a period of neglect of Africa and unsystematic collection of information about the continent to a period of increasing interest in Africa and an expanding collection of information about the continent. When the total range of information about Africa available to the average American citizen is taken into account, however, it must be recognized that the majority is biased, impressionistic, and inaccurate by the standards of Africans, scholars, and Africanists.