| Description |
ix, 374 p. maps. 23 cm. |
| Contents |
t Stateless societies / r Bohannan -- t Types of segmentary lineage systems / r Middleton and Tait -- t Minimal government / r Mair -- t Nuer society / r Howell -- t The Kilwa state / r Freeman-Grenville -- t The Ganda / r Richards -- t West Sudan states / r Trimingham -- t The Mossi of the Upper Volta / r Skinner -- t The king of Dahomey and his court / r Herskovits -- t The Zimbabwe culture / r Caton-Thompson -- t The history of the Mwanamutapa empire / r Abraham -- t Kingdoms of the Savanna / r Vansina -- t The gold trade / r Mauny -- t The caravan trade in the nineteenth century / r Boahen -- t The last of the caravans / r Bovill -- t A medieval trade-route from the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea / r Wilks -- t Long-distance trade-routes in central Africa / r Vansina -- t The medieval trade of the coast of Tanganyika / r Freeman-Grenville -- t The Portuguese period in east Africa / r Strandes -- t The years of the African slave trade / r Davidson -- t The peopling of America with blacks / r Kuczynski -- t Sources of the nineteenth-century Atlantic slave trade / r Curtin and Vansina -- t The great states of the Guinea forest / r Fage -- t The slave trade, depopulation, and human sacrifice in Benin history / r Graham -- t Yoruba warfare in the nineteenth century / r Ajayi and Smith. |
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t Negro nations and culture / r Diop -- t Nations negres et culture- a review / r Mauny -- t Negro nations and culture : a preface / r Diop -- t Egypt and negro Africa / r Seligman -- t The religion of the Yorubas / r Lucas -- t The diving kingship in Ghana and ancient Egypt / r Meyrowitz -- t Sudanic agricultural civilization / r Murdock -- t Ancient Egypt and modern Africa / r Wescott -- t Kingship, archaeology, and historical myth / r Posnansky -- t The distribution and characteristics of the Bantu languages / r Johnston -- t Niger-Congo / r Greenberg -- t Some developments in the prehistory of the Bantu languages / r Guthrie -- t Linguistic clues to African history / r Wrigley -- t The peopling of the interior of Africa by its modern inhabitants / r Huntingford -- t Expansion of the Bantu / r Murdock -- t Speculations on the economic prehistory Africa / r Wrigley -- t Banty genesis / r Posnansky -- t The problem of the Bantu expansion / r Oliver -- t The peopling of the interior of east Africa by its modern inhabitants / r Huntingford -- t The languages of Africa / r Greenberg -- t The Nilotes / r Murdock -- t Lwoo migrations / r Crazzolara -- t Lwoo migrations- a review / r Wright -- t Kingship and statelessness among Nilotes / r Ogot. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Subject |
Africa -- History.
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