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Africa in the nineteenth century until the 1880s

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs.
Print Book, English, 1998
Abridged ed
Currey [u.a.], London [u.a.], 1998
General history of Africa / UNESCO, International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa, vol. 6, / UNESCO, International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa ; Vol. 6
XXIII, 356 S. Ill., Kt
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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.