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This is a radically revised version of The African Middle Ages 1400-1800, and the companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800. It follows the overall plan of the original, but now begins 150 years earlier, and considers recent literature in African historical studies. The earlier starting date enables a more distinctly African viewpoint. By about 1250 AD African societies were greatly expanding their political and economic scope. Islam was spreading south across the Sahara from Mediterranean Africa, and down the Indian Ocean coast. Medieval Africa continues into the period of European contacts from the 15th century onwards, with some emphasis on the growth of the trans-Saharan, Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trade. The book stresses both the strengths and weaknesses of African societies as the eighteenth century drew to a close. This volume will be an essential introduction to African history for students, as well as for the general reader. It is illustrated with a wealth of maps.

Africa --- Afrique --- History --- Histoire --- Africa--History--To 1884. --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- History & Archaeology --- History of Africa --- anno 1200-1799 --- Arts and Humanities

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Colonisation. Decolonisation --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- Africa

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Economic sociology --- Foreign trade. International trade --- Sub-Saharan Africa

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Development aid. Development cooperation --- Africa --- Economic assistance --- Case studies

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Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems simple. Jonathan Glennie argues that government aid to Africa actually has many very harmful effects. He claims that aid has often meant more poverty, more hungry people, worse basic services for poor people and damage to already precarious democratic institutions.

Development aid. Development cooperation --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Economic assistance --- Poverty --- Economic development --- Aide économique --- Pauvreté --- Développement économique --- Africa --- Afrique --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Conditions économiques --- Politique et gouvernement --- Economic policy --- Aide économique --- Pauvreté --- Développement économique --- Conditions économiques --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Economic assistance - Africa --- Africa - Economic policy - 21st century