The essays word limit is 1000 words. It is an introductory piece of writing. I

The essays word limit is 1000 words. It is an introductory piece of writing. I would like you to write at the level of a mid/upper 2.1 UK university level. In the essay briefly define historical agency. Following with 2-3 arguments on its important in African History. Feel free to use your own sources but i would also like to you include at least 3 from the following list. Whichever are most relevant.
Frederick Cooper, ‘Africa’s Pasts and Africa’s Historians’, Canadian Journal of African Studies 34 (2000), pp. 298-336.
Frederick Cooper, ‘Conflict and Connection: Rethinking Colonial African History’, American Historical Review 99 (5) (1994), pp. 1516-45.
Donald Denoon, ‘Nationalist Historians in Search of a Nation: The ‘New Historiography in Dar es Salaam’, African Affairs 69 (277) (1970), pp. 329-49 and Terence Ranger, ‘The ‘New Historiography’ in Dar es Salaam: An Answer’, African Affairs 70(278) (1971), pp. 50-61.
Stephen Ellis, ‘Writing Histories of Contemporary Africa’, Journal of African History 43 (2002), pp. 1-26.
John Parker and Richard Rathbone, African History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007). Ebook
John Parker and Richard Reid (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History (Oxford, 2013), pp. 338-358. Ebook
John Edward Philips (ed.), Writing African History (Rochester, 2007). Ebook
Mahmood Mamdani, ‘Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism’, Comparative Studies of Society and History 43 (2001), pp. 651-64.
Richard Reid, ‘Past and Presentism: The “Precolonial” and the Foreshortening of African History’, Journal of African History 52 (2011), pp. 135-55.
Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Mustapha H. Kurfi and Fallou Ngom, ‘Refuting that precolonial Africa lacked written traditions’Link opens in a new window, Africa is a Country, 10 January 2019.