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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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ôDr. Livingstone, I presume?ö The man who uttered those famous words was compared with Christopher Columbus in his day and became one of the late nineteenth centuryÆs most newsworthy figures. Yet, one hundred years after Henry Morton StanleyÆs death, his accomplishments in Africa have largely receded from public memory or have been discredited as epitomizing the wrongs inflicted by the scourge of European colonialism and its ôscramble for Africa.ö While numerous writers have attempted to describe the man, sometimes through highly speculative means, our understanding of the most notable aspect

Explorers --- Discoverers --- Navigators --- Voyagers --- Adventure and adventurers --- Heroes --- Discoveries in geography --- Stanley, Henry M. --- Stanley, Henry Morton, --- Stanley, H. M. --- Stėnli, G. M. --- Stėnli, Genri Morton, --- Stanley, Henry, --- Rowlands, John, --- Roulends, Dzhon, --- סטענלי, ה. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Africa, Black --- Africa, Subsaharan --- Africa, Tropical --- Africa South of the Sahara --- Black Africa --- Sub-Sahara Africa --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Subsahara Africa --- Subsaharan Africa --- Tropical Africa --- Description and travel. --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Description and travel

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This text provides a typological overview of the different manifestations of grammaticalized case systems in African languages.

Africa --- Languages --- Case. --- African languages --- Grammar --- Eastern Hemisphere

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"The first survey of the Pan-African movement this century, this book provides a history of the individuals and organisations that have sought the unity of all those of African origin as the basis for advancement and liberation. Initially an idea and movement that took root among the African Diaspora, in more recent times Pan-Africanism has been embodied in the African Union, the organisation of African states which includes the entire African Diaspora as its 'sixth region'. Hakim Adi covers many of the key political figures of the 20th century, including Du Bois, Garvey, Malcolm X, Nkrumah and Gaddafi, as well as Pan-African culture expression from Nǧritude to the wearing of the Afro hair style and the music of Bob Marley."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Pan-Africanism --- African diaspora --- Africa --- History. --- Pan-Africanism. --- African diaspora.

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Imported schnapps gin has a remarkable history in West Africa. Gin was imported in great quantities between 1880 and World War I, when its consumption showed access to the modern, international world. Subsequently schnapps was transformed into a good that signified traditional, local culture. Today, imported schnapps has high status because of its importance for African ritual and as symbol of the status of chiefs and elders, but actual consumption is limited. This book explores this unexpected trajectory of commoditisation to investigate how imported goods acquire specific local meanings. This analysis of consumption and marketing of gin contributes to our understanding of patterns of consumption, rejection and appropriation within processes of identity formation, elite formation, and the redefinition of community in colonial and postcolonial West Africa.

Jenever. --- Gin --- Liquors --- Social aspects --- History. --- Africa, West --- West-Afrika. --- Social life and customs. --- History --- Sociology of culture --- West Africa