African history is a relatively new discipline and its sources, methodology, and content may be unfamiliar to those trained in European or U.S. history. Through presentations by African scholars, this document offers new strategies for integrating Africa into world history courses. Each presentation is followed by commentaries from experienced history teachers on how the issues presented can be used in the classroom. Bryant P. Shaw, in "Isolation and Progress: Africa and World History," points out how the limitations of history textbooks can be overcome by adopting new approaches to the subject. Jan Vansina explains the historiographic dimensions of African history in the presentation "One's Own Past: African Perceptions of African History." A. J. R. Russell-Wood confronts the misconceptions, problems, complexities, and unknowns of African history in "African History: New Perspectives for the non-Africanist Historian." George E. Brook's presentation, "A Schema for Integrating Africa into World History Courses," offers materials, maps, and methods of organization for teaching African history. In "The African Diaspora in World Historical Perspective," Joseph C. Miller emphasizes the importance of students' understanding the process of slavery and the slave systems for the diasporan aspect of African history. Philip D. Curtin establishes how the disease environment played a major role in shaping African history in "Disease and Africa in World History." A world history syllabus, examinations, and a bibliography are provided in the appendices. (SM)