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Book SynopsisSPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs.
Trade ReviewA major theme of the volume, ... taken up in the first chapter, is the struggle for international trade and its implications for Africa... a worthy and worthwhile undertaking, bringing within reasonably affordable reach, a comprehensive survey which should long stand as a basic introductory text on the period. - -- Kevin Shillington * CORRUPTION & DEMOCRATISATION *
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... a real contribution to scholarship. - -- Roland Oliver * the TLS *
The General History of Africa was launched in 1970, when an International Scientific Committee of 39 scholars was formed to oversee the writing and publication of a complete survey of the African past, from pre-history to the present. The laudable aim of the project was to break free from the straightjacket of Eurocentrism, and to provide a history that reflected a range of African views without imposing any set historical interpretation. - -- David M. Anderson * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *
Table of ContentsThe struggle for international trade and its implications for Africa, M. Malowist; African political, economic and social structures, P. Diagne; population movements and emergence of new socio-political forms, J. Vansina; Africa in world history - the export slacve trade and the emergence of the Atlantic economic order, J.E. Inikori; the African diaspora in the old and new worlds, J.E. Harris; the Ottoman conquest of Egypt, R. Vesely; the Sudan, 1500-1800, Y.F. Hasan and B.A. Ogot,; Morocco, M. El Fasi; Algeria, Tunisia and Libya - the Ottomans and their heirs, M.H. Cherif; Senegambia from the 16th-18th century - the Wolof, Sereer and "Tukuloor", B. Barry; the end of the Songhay empire, M. Abitbol; from the Niger to the Volta, M. Izard and J. Ki-Zerbo; states and cultures of the Upper Guinean coast, C. Wondji; states and cultures of the Lower Guinean coast, A.A. Boahen; Fon and Yoruba - the Niger delta and the Cameroon, E.J. Alagao; the Hausa states, D. Laya; Kanem-Borno - its relations with the Meditteranean Sea, Bagirmi and other states in the Chad basin, B.M. Barkindo; from the Cameroon grasslands to the Upper Nile, E.M. M'Bokolo; the Kongo kingdom and its neighbours, J. Vansina and T. Obenga; the political system of the Luba and Lunda, Ndaywel al Nziem; the northern Zambesi-Lake Malawi region, K.M. Phiri, O.J.M. Kalinga and H.H.K. Bhila; Southern Zambezia, H.H.K. Bhila; Southern Africa, D. Denoon; the Horn of Africa, E. Haberland; East Africa - the coast, A.I. Salim; the Great Lakes region, 1500-1800, J.B. Webster, B.A. Ogot and J.P. Chretien; the interior of East Africa - the peoples of Kenya and Tanzania, 1500-1800. W.R. Ochieng; Madagascar and the islands of the Indian Ocean, R.K. Kent; the historical development of African societies, 1500-1800.
