Explore the Congo!

African Voices II offers an electronic field trip series for students in grades 7 - 12. View the  live one-hour Webcast, which was broadcasted live  from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Exploring the Congo

With the end of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the onset of Europe's Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, a new group of African leaders and entrepreneurs emerged, leading a trade revolution that changed domestic economies.  Palm oil and peanut production boomed in West Africa, as did ivory trade in Central and East Africa, and coffee production in the North.  From the lower Congo and Angola, caravans carried goods, guns, letters, newspapers between the continent's interior and coast.  Africans began to redirect their energies local industries to agricultural exports.  This shirt, later intensified during colonialism, laid the basis for future dependence on imported manufactured goods.

With this program, students will be given the tools to help them explore:

Dynamism
History Diversity
Global Connections
Agencies and Constraints