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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0890897689
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0890897683
• Author:  Toyin Falola

Africa: Volume 1 begins a series of books which adopt a new perspective on African history and culture, surveying the wide array of societies and states that have existed on the African continent and introducing readers to the diversity of African experiences and cultural expressions. Toyin Falola has brought together African studies professors from a variety of schools and settings. Writing from their individual areas of expertise, these authors work together to break general stereotypes about Africa, focusing instead on the substantive issues of the African past from an African perspective. The texts are richly illustrated and include maps and timelines to make cultural and historical movements clearer, and suggestions for further reading will help readers broaden their own particular interests. Africa provides new perspectives that challenge the accepted ways of studying Africa, flexibility for instructors to structure courses, and encouragement for readers who are eager to learn about the diversity of the African experience.

Table contents:

Part A Background Knowledge

Chapter 1 The Study of Africa in Historical Perspective

Chapter 2 The Geography of Africa

Part B Early History

Chapter 3 Early History: Traditions of Origins and Archaeological Interpretations

Chapter 4 Civilizations of the Upper Nile and North Africa

Part C People and States

Chapter 5 Bantu Expansion and Its Consequences

Chapter 6 Sudanese Kingdoms of West Africa

Chapter 7 Kingdoms of West Africa: Benin, Oyo, and Asante

Chapter 8 East African States

Chapter 9 Central Africa: People and States

Chapter 10 Ethiopia

Chapter 11 North Africa: Peoples and States to 1880

Chapter 12 Acephalous Societies

Part D The Nineteenth Century

Chapter 13 The Jihads in West Africa

Chapter 14 The Omani Empire

Chapter 15 East and Central Africa in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 16 The Mfecane and South Africa

Part E Africa and Europe

Chapter 17 Africa and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Chapter 18 Euro-African Relations to 1885

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