Africans

• Author : John Iliffe
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 25 August 1995

A comprehensive history of Africa from the origins of mankind to the late twentieth century.

• Author : Paul Conton,W. F. Conton
• Publisher : Volume
• Release : 19 September 2019

This book provides a fascinating summary of African history over 5000 years, from the Stone Age to the classical Greek and Roman era, through the 'medieval' period of the kingdoms of the Western Sudan and into the colonial era. This is far beyond the time span normally covered in history texts, and it empowers Conton to sweeping conclusions. The style and language are simple in this text, originally intended for West African secondary school students, but the concepts the author explores

• Author : J. D. Fage,Michael Crowder,Roland Anthony Oliver
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 17 August 1975

Specialists in various aspects of African history and civilization contribute to an integrated portrait of internal and foreign influences on the course of Africa's development

• Author : Donald A. Yerxa
• Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
• Release : 17 August 2022

Described as the New York Review of Books for history, Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in recent years, actively seeking out contributions from a pantheon of leading voices in historical discourse. This collection of articles and forums by prominent historians explores the relationship of Africa to world history, maps the current state of the burgeoning field of Atlantic history, and debates the accuracy of Olaudah Equiano's seminal narrative. The standard approach of world

• Author : Molefi Kete Asante
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 10 October 2014

There is a paradox about Africa: it remains a subject that attracts considerable attention yet rarely is there a full appreciation of its complexity. African historiography has typically consisted of writing Africa for Europe—instead of writing Africa for itself, as itself, from its own perspectives. The History of Africa redresses this by letting the perspectives of Africans themselves take center stage. Authoritative and comprehensive, this book provides a wide-ranging history of Africa from earliest prehistory to the present day—

• Author : Kevin Shillington
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 17 August 1989

Now fully revised and updated, this classic text offers an illustrated and critical narrative introduction to the history of Africa from earliest times to the present. Beginning with the evolution of mankind itself, the book traces the history of Africa through the millennia of the ancient world to the centuries of medieval and modern Africa. The clear and simple language and the wealth of carefully chosen maps and photos combine to make an essential and accessible text.

• Author : J. D. Fage,John Desmond Clark,Roland Anthony Oliver
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 17 August 1975

Specialists in various aspects of African history and civilization contribute to an integrated portrait of internal and foreign influences on the course of Africa's development

• Author : Mukololo Wa Luvhalani Takalani Dube
• Publisher : Pageturner Press and Media
• Release : 17 August 2021

It is not unusual for Continental and Diaspora Africans to feel Confused and Effaced Whenever they read up on the History of Africa and her People. Non Africans tell me that they feel as if they are reading an incomplete story... This Synoptic History of Africa from Creation to date, decodes the Dominions' Denials, Silences and outright Erasures of Africans from their Continent which causes this Effacement and incompleteness. The Book Challenges the Bantuist Migratory Theory, Interrogates the Name of

• Author : Molefi Kete Asante
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 10 October 2014

There is a paradox about Africa: it remains a subject that attracts considerable attention yet rarely is there a full appreciation of its complexity. African historiography has typically consisted of writing Africa for Europe—instead of writing Africa for itself, as itself, from its own perspectives. The History of Africa redresses this by letting the perspectives of Africans themselves take center stage. Authoritative and comprehensive, this book provides a wide-ranging history of Africa from earliest prehistory to the present day—

• Author : Stefano Bellucci,Andreas Eckert
• Publisher : James Currey
• Release : 17 May 2019

The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.

• Author : David Birmingham
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 17 August 1981

The complete Cambridge History of Africa aims to present the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of historical development on the African continent and will be valuable to both students and teachers of African history.

• Author : Timothy J. Stapleton
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 21 October 2013

A detailed and thorough chronological overview of the history of warfare and military structures in Africa, covering ancient times to the present day. • Provides a complete introduction of Africa's military history that is accessible to general readers without specialized knowledge • Supplies illuminating accounts of Africa's most important military leaders, from Hannibal of ancient Carthage to Queen Nzinga of 17th-century Angola to Paul Kagame of contemporary Rwanda • Portrays Africa within the context of a global perspective that portrays the continent's existence

• Author : Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 03 November 1992

"The book first places Africa in the context of world history at the opening of the seventh century, before examining the general impact of Islamic penetration, the continuing expansion of the Bantu-speaking peoples, and the growth of civilizations in the Sudanic zones of West Africa"--Back cover.

• Author : J. F. Ade Ajayi,Michael Crowder
• Publisher : Longman Sc & Tech
• Release : 17 August 1985

• Author : Robin Hallett,Michigan. University
• Publisher : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
• Release : 17 August 1970

General history embracing the continent of Africa and adjoining islands from remote times to 1875, discussing African societies and politics, indigenous developments, foreign incursions and influences, and manifestations of change region by region and underlines the differences between and among the regions that make generalizations about Africa absurd.