Thus the selections are relatively well-balanced to represent different kinds of African perspectives. The readings in Through African Eyes are quite flexible. They can be used in their entirety as a high school curriculum on Africa, or may be used in part to fit into history or social studies curricula on Africa, or to introduce African perspectives into general curricula on history, colonialism or nationalism. The readings can be used on their own or in conjunction with curriculum suggestions that are published in a separate volume, Teaching Strategies. Few teachers could individually select such a wide range of African viewpoints to include in a curriculum.
Most teachers lack access to a wide range of resources from which to make selections.
Very few libraries in the U.S. have comprehensive collections of materials on Africa. Even fewer have collections which include materials published in Africa. Most volumes in the series focus on American topics such as AIDS, abortion, animal rights, the arms race, U.S. foreign policy and death and dying. Of more than 30 volumes in the series, less than five focus on foreign areas. Neither Rohr, nor the series editors, David Bender and Bruno Leone, have significant African expertise.