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A History of the African People / Edition 5 available in Paperback
A History of the African People / Edition 5
by Robert W. July
Robert W. July
- ISBN-10:
- 0881339806
- ISBN-13:
- 9780881339802
- Pub. Date:
- 11/12/1997
- Publisher:
- Waveland Press, Inc.
- ISBN-10:
- 0881339806
- ISBN-13:
- 9780881339802
- Pub. Date:
- 11/12/1997
- Publisher:
- Waveland Press, Inc.
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| ISBN-13: | 9780881339802 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Waveland Press, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 11/12/1997 |
| Edition description: | Revised |
| Pages: | 712 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.09(w) x 8.96(h) x 1.47(d) |
Table of Contents
| Part I | Ancient Africa | 1 |
| 1 | The Beginnings of African History | 3 |
| The Geographic Base | 3 | |
| The Genesis of Homo Sapiens | 9 | |
| Africa and the Origins of Agriculture | 13 | |
| The Agricultural Revolution in Egypt | 17 | |
| The Distribution of African Populations | 21 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 26 | |
| 2 | Africa in the Ancient World | 27 |
| Egypt and Kush | 27 | |
| Mediterranean Africa | 37 | |
| The Ancient Land of Axum | 41 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 45 | |
| 3 | The States of the Western and Central Sudan | 47 |
| The World of the Desert | 47 | |
| The Ecology of Sahel and Savanna | 51 | |
| Traders in the Sahara and Sudan | 54 | |
| The Golden Commerce | 57 | |
| The Mercantile Civilization | 59 | |
| Sudanic State Systems | 63 | |
| The Kingdom of Ghana | 65 | |
| The Rise and Fall of Mali | 67 | |
| The Empire of Songhai | 69 | |
| Kanem-Bornu and the Hausa States | 72 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 78 | |
| 4 | The Cosmopolitan World of East Africa | 79 |
| The Rise of the City-States | 79 | |
| The Portuguese on the East African Coast | 84 | |
| The Omani Suzerainty | 88 | |
| Ethiopia--The Trials of Isolation | 92 | |
| Christians and Muslims in the Eastern Sudan | 100 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 102 | |
| 5 | The West African Forest Civilization | 104 |
| The Land and the People | 104 | |
| The Daily Life | 112 | |
| Ife, Oyo, and the Rise of the Yoruba | 117 | |
| The People of Benin | 119 | |
| The Kingdom of Dahomey | 122 | |
| The Akan States of Asante and Fante | 123 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 127 | |
| 6 | The Great Migrations | 129 |
| The Civilization of Zimbabwe | 129 | |
| The Bantu Speakers | 132 | |
| Bantu Cultures | 136 | |
| Cushitic and Nilotic Movements | 139 | |
| Some Bantu and Nilotic Communities | 141 | |
| Central African Bantu | 141 | |
| Bunyoro and Buganda | 142 | |
| The Kikuyu | 144 | |
| Turkana Pastoralists | 146 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 148 | |
| 7 | The Coming of Europe | 150 |
| The Roots of European Expansion | 150 | |
| The Imperial Design of Portugal | 152 | |
| The Portuguese in Kongo and Angola | 153 | |
| The Arrival of the Dutch | 157 | |
| The British and French in West Africa | 163 | |
| The Nature of the European Impact | 164 | |
| European Commerce | 170 | |
| Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade | 172 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 176 | |
| Part II | Revolutionary Africa | 179 |
| 8 | The Genesis of Modern Africa | 181 |
| The Age of Revolution | 181 | |
| Muhammad Ali and the Modernization of Egypt | 183 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 187 | |
| 9 | Religion and Empire in Western and Central Sudan | 188 |
| Prelude to the Great Jihads of the Nineteenth Century | 188 | |
| Usuman dan Fodio and the Sokoto Jihad | 190 | |
| Seku Ahmadu in Masina | 196 | |
| The Jihad of al-Hajj Umar | 198 | |
| Al-Kanemi and His Successors in Bornu | 200 | |
| Samori and Rabih | 203 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 208 | |
| 10 | The Eastern Sudan--Egyptian Expansionism and the Mahdist Revolution | 209 |
| Invasion from the North | 209 | |
| The Ecology of Poverty | 211 | |
| Egypt in the Sudan | 214 | |
| The Southern Sudan and the Slave Trade | 218 | |
| Backdrop to the Mahdi | 221 | |
| The Mahdist Revolution | 222 | |
| Epilogue--The Khalifa Abdallahi | 225 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 227 | |
| 11 | Population Explosions in Southern Africa | 228 |
| Mfecane--The Road from Zululand | 228 | |
| Central Africa and the Great Ngoni Trek | 233 | |
| The Search for Security--Sebetwane and Mzilikazi | 236 | |
| Moshoeshoe and the Diplomacy of Self-Defense | 239 | |
| The Boer Trekkers | 241 | |
| The Shape of Things to Come--South Africa at Mid-Century | 245 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 250 | |
| 12 | West Africa and Europe's Humanitarian Revolution | 252 |
| The Enlightenment in West Africa | 252 | |
| Colonization, Christianity, and Commerce | 255 | |
| Senegal--The Jacobin Heritage | 258 | |
| The Bible and the Plough | 259 | |
| West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century | 264 | |
| The Vanishing Dream | 268 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 273 | |
| 13 | Commerce and Statecraft in Eastern and Central Africa | 275 |
| The Rise of International Trade | 275 | |
| The Economic Imperialism of Sayyid Said | 279 | |
| Firearms and the Shifting Ecology of the Interior | 283 | |
| Mirambo, Tippu Tip, and the Demise of Merchant Imperialism | 286 | |
| Buganda and the International Trade | 289 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 291 | |
| Part III | Colonial Africa | 293 |
| 14 | The Partition of Africa | 295 |
| The Berlin Conference | 295 | |
| Partition--The Causes | 298 | |
| Partition--The Process | 303 | |
| Partition--The African Response | 310 | |
| Modernization and Independence in Ethiopia | 314 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 320 | |
| 15 | Early Nationalist Stirrings in West Africa | 322 |
| Adaptation and Survival | 322 | |
| Politics and Commerce in Senegal | 324 | |
| Sierra Leone and African Nationalist Self-Consciousness | 328 | |
| Edward Blyden Creates a Philosophy of African Nationalism | 331 | |
| Liberia and the Tribulations of Independence | 335 | |
| The Demise of the Forest Kingdoms | 337 | |
| Abortive Alliance--The Westernized Africans and the Traditional Authorities | 340 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 344 | |
| 16 | The Foundations of Progress and Poverty in Southern Africa | 345 |
| The Birth of a New Society | 345 | |
| Britain and Complexities of Colonial Stewardship | 346 | |
| The Revolution of Diamonds and Gold | 348 | |
| The Road to Union | 352 | |
| The Other Union | 358 | |
| Beyond the Limpopo-- | 363 | |
| --And Across the Zambezi | 368 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 374 | |
| 17 | Colonialism and Nation Making in East Africa | 375 |
| The Logic of European Imperialism | 375 | |
| British Paternalism in Uganda | 376 | |
| Kenya--Racialism in a Colonial Society | 380 | |
| Kenya--Alien Rule and African Response | 384 | |
| Kenya--The Onset of African Political and Social Aspirations | 386 | |
| The Tanganyikan Colony and Mandate | 389 | |
| Multiple Colonialism in Zanzibar | 392 | |
| British Rule and Nationalist Stirrings in the Nile Valley | 394 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 397 | |
| 18 | Between Two World Wars--Nationalist Frustrations in West Africa | 399 |
| West Africa and the First World War | 399 | |
| The Theory and Practice of Colonial Administration | 400 | |
| Nationalist Politics in West Africa Between the Two World Wars | 404 | |
| The National Congress of British West Africa | 414 | |
| The Pan-African Movement | 416 | |
| Liberia and African Nationalism | 419 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 422 | |
| 19 | In the Heart of Darkness | 424 |
| The Unity of Diversity | 424 | |
| The Belgian Congo | 425 | |
| French Equatorial Africa | 433 | |
| Portuguese Angola and Mozambique | 438 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 442 | |
| 20 | The Two Societies of Southern Africa | 444 |
| Apartheid--Colonialism in South Africa | 444 | |
| Apartheid and the Republic of South Africa | 451 | |
| African Nationalism in South Africa | 453 | |
| South-West Africa and the High Commission Territories | 458 | |
| The Theory and Practice of Partnership in Central Africa | 460 | |
| The Rise and Fall of Federation in Central Africa | 464 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 469 | |
| Part IV | Independent Africa | 471 |
| 21 | Toward Independence | 473 |
| The Foundations of Freedom | 473 | |
| The Changing World | 479 | |
| Independence Movements in the Northeast | 481 | |
| The West African Catalyst | 484 | |
| Independence--The French-African Variant | 491 | |
| The Crisis of Independence in the Congo | 495 | |
| East African Uhuru | 499 | |
| Black and White Independence in Central Africa | 507 | |
| The Haves and the Have-Nots | 511 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 512 | |
| 22 | Independence Economics | 515 |
| The Meaning of Freedom | 515 | |
| Alternatives of Economic Development | 516 | |
| The Problems of Modernization | 520 | |
| Agriculture | 520 | |
| Mining | 523 | |
| Industry | 525 | |
| The Vagaries of Economic Growth | 528 | |
| The Crisis of Foreign Debt | 534 | |
| A Faltering Development | 536 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 539 | |
| 23 | States and Nations | 540 |
| The Indispensable Unity | 540 | |
| Decline of the Parties | 541 | |
| The Soldiers | 549 | |
| Civil War | 553 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 563 | |
| 24 | Disintegrating Citadels in the South | 564 |
| Portugal Bows Out | 564 | |
| From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe | 568 | |
| Namibia--The Last African Colony | 572 | |
| The Afrikaner Laager | 574 | |
| "Freedom in Our Lifetime" | 578 | |
| A New South Africa | 582 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 583 | |
| 25 | African Cultural Independence--Ideals and Complexities | 585 |
| Negritude | 585 | |
| An Independent African Civilization | 589 | |
| Europe and the African Personality | 592 | |
| The Victims | 596 | |
| Independence and the African Woman | 599 | |
| Ecological Imperatives | 602 | |
| Economic Development and the Wars | 605 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 607 | |
| Index | 609 |
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