Author: Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780520066960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Author: J. D. Fage
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Basil Davidson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-29
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1317882652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
Author: William H. Worger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-02-02
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0199706549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Africa and the West presents a fascinating array of primary sources to engage readers in the history of Africa's long and troubled relationship with the West. Many of the sources have not previously appeared in print, or in books readily available to students. Volume 1 covers two major topics: the Atlantic slave trade and the European conquest. It details the beginnings of the slave trade, slavery as a business, the experiences of slaves, and the effect of abolitionism on the trade, using such documents as a letter from a sixteenth-century African king to the king of Portugal calling for a more regulated slave trade, and the nineteenth-century testimony of a South African slave accused of treason. The volume also covers the early nineteenth-century considerations of the costs and benefits of colonization, the development of conquest as the century progressed, with special attention to technology, legislation, empire, religion, racism, and violence, through such unusual documents as Cecil Rhodes's will and a chart of the costs of African animals exported to Western zoos.
Author: Robert O. Collins
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume discusses 500 years of western African history, beginning with the writings of travellers Ibn Battuta, Leo Africanus and Mungo Park. Topics covered include: religious wars; the trans-Sahara and cross-Atlantic slave trade; the French and British colonial periods; and modern times.