General History of Africa Volume 6

Subtitle:: Africa in the Nineteenth Century Until the 1880s
Editor:: J. F. Ade Ajayi
Format:: Softcover

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Covers the major forces at work in African society at the beginning of the 19th century until the onset of the European scramble for colonial territory in the 1880s. This study also looks at Africa's changing role in the world economy, and the effects of the abolition of the slave trade.

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Publisher:: James Currey
ISBN:: 9780852550960
Publication date:: May 1998
Length:: 210mm
Width:: 148mm
Weight:: 458g
Edition:: Abridged edition
Pages:: 384
Illustrations:: Illustrated
Readership:: Undergraduate
Abridged:: True
Illustrated:: Illustrated

Africa at the beginning of the 19th century, J.F. Ajayi
Africa and the world economy, I. Wallerstein
new trends and processes in Africa, A.A. Boahen
the abolition of the slave trade, S. Daget
the Mfecane and the rise of the new African states, I.D. Ngcongco
the impact of the Mfecane on the Cape Colony, E.K. Mashingaidze
the British, Boers and Africans in South Africa, 1850-1880, N. Bhebe
the countries of the Zambesi basin, A.F. Isaacman
the East African coast and hinterland, 1845-1880, I.N. Kimambo
peoples and states of the Great Lakes region, D.W. Cohen
the Congo Basin and Angola, J.L. Vellut
the renaissance of Egypt, 1805-81, A. Abdel-Malek
the Sudan in the 19th century, H.A. Ibrahim and B.A. Ogot
Ethiopia and Somalia, R. Pankhurst and L.V. Cassanelli
Madagascar, 1800-80, P.M. Mutibwa and F.V. Esoavelo-Mandrosa
new trends in the Maghrib - Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, M.H. Cherif
Morocco, A. Laroui
new patterns of European intervention in the Maghrib, N. Ivanov
the Sahara, S. Baier
the 19th-century Islamic revolutions in West Africa, A. Batran
the Sokoto caliphate and Borno, M. Last
Massina and the Torodbe (Tukuloor) empire until 1878, M. Ly-Tall
states and peoples of Senegambia and Upper Guinea, Y. Person
states and peoples of the Niger Bend and the Volta, K. Arhin and J. Ki-Zerbo
Dahomey, Yorubaland, Borgu and Benin in the 19th century, A.I. Asiwaju
the Niger delta and the Cameroon region, E.J. Alagao, L.Z. Elango and M. Metegue N'Nah
the African diaspora, F.W. Knight, Y. Talib and P.D. Curtin
conclusion - Africa on the eve of European conquest.