A History of the African People

, by July, Robert William

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PART I Ancient Africa

(178)

1 The Beginnings of African History

(24)

The Geographic Base

(6)

The Genesis of Homo Sapiens

(4)

Africa and the Origins of Agriculture

(4)

The Agricultural Revolution in Egypt

(4)

The Distribution of African Populations

(5)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(1)

2 Africa in the Ancient World

(20)

Egypt and Kush

(10)

Mediterranean Africa

(4)

The Ancient Land of Axum

(4)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(2)

3 The States of the Western and Central Sudan

(32)

The World of the Desert

(4)

The Ecology of Sahel and Savanna

(3)

Traders in the Sahara and Sudan

(3)

The Golden Commerce

(2)

The Mercantile Civilization

(4)

Sudanic State Systems

(2)

The Kingdom of Ghana

(2)

The Rise and Fall of Mali

(2)

The Empire of Songhai

(3)

Kanem-Bornu and the Hausa States

(6)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(1)

4 The Cosmopolitan World of East Africa

(25)

The Rise of the City-States

(5)

The Portuguese on the East African Coast

(4)

The Omani Suzerainty

(4)

Ethiopia--The Trials of Isolation

(8)

Christians and Muslims in the Eastern Sudan

100

(2)

Suggestions for Further Reading

102

(2)

5 The West African Forest Civilization

104

(25)

The Land and the People

104

(8)

The Daily Life

112

(5)

Ife, Oyo, and the Rise of the Yoruba

117

(2)

The People of Benin

119

(3)

The Kingdom of Dahomey

122

(1)

The Akan States of Asante and Fante

123

(4)

Suggestions for Further Reading

127

(2)

6 The Great Migrations

129

(21)

The Civilization of Zimbabwe

129

(3)

The Bantu Speakers

132

(4)

Bantu Cultures

136

(3)

Cushitic and Nilotic Movements

139

(2)

Some Bantu and Nilotic Communities

141

(7)

Central African Bantu

141

(1)

Bunyoro and Buganda

142

(2)

The Kikuyu

144

(2)

Turkana Pastoralists

146

(2)

Suggestions for Further Reading

148

(2)

7 The Coming of Europe

150

(29)

The Roots of European Expansion

150

(2)

The Imperial Design of Portugal

152

(1)

The Portuguese in Kongo and Angola

153

(4)

The Arrival of the Dutch

157

(6)

The British and French in West Africa

163

(1)

The Nature of the European Impact

164

(6)

European Commerce

170

(2)

Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade

172

(4)

Suggestions for Further Reading

176

(3)

PART II Revolutionary Africa

179

(114)

8 The Genesis of Modern Africa

181

(7)

The Age of Revolution

181

(2)

Muhammad Ali and the Modernization of Egypt

183

(4)

Suggestions for Further Reading

187

(1)

9 Religion and Empire in Western and Central Sudan

188

(21)

Prelude to the Great Jihads of the Nineteenth Century

188

(2)

Usuman dan Fodio and the Sokoto Jihad

190

(6)

Seku Ahmadu in Masina

196

(2)

The Jihad of al-Hajj Umar

198

(2)

Al-Kanemi and His Successors in Bornu

200

(3)

Samori and Rabih

203

(5)

Suggestions for Further Reading

208

(1)

10 The Eastern Sudan--Egyptian Expansionism and the Mahdist Revolution

209

(19)

Invasion from the North

209

(2)

The Ecology of Poverty

211

(3)

Egypt in the Sudan

214

(4)

The Southern Sudan and the Slave Trade

218

(3)

Backdrop to the Mahdi

221

(1)

The Mahdist Revolution

222

(3)

Epilogue--The Khalifa Abdallahi

225

(2)

Suggestions for Further Reading

227

(1)

11 Population Explosions in Southern Africa

228

(24)

Mfecane--The Road from Zululand

228

(5)

Central Africa and the Great Ngoni Trek

233

(3)

The Search for Security--Sebetwane and Mzilikazi

236

(3)

Moshoeshoe and the Diplomacy of Self-Defense

239

(2)

The Boer Trekkers

241

(4)

The Shape of Things to Come--South Africa at Mid-Century

245

(5)

Suggestions for Further Reading

250

(2)

12 West Africa and Europe's Humanitarian Revolution

252

(23)

The Enlightenment in West Africa

252

(3)

Colonization, Christianity, and Commerce

255

(3)

Senegal--The Jacobin Heritage

258

(1)

The Bible and the Plough

259

(5)

West African Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century

264

(4)

The Vanishing Dream

268

(5)

Suggestions for Further Reading

273

(2)

13 Commerce and Statecraft in Eastern and Central Africa

275

(18)

The Rise of International Trade

275

(4)

The Economic Imperialism of Sayyid Said

279

(4)

Firearms and the Shifting Ecology of the Interior

283

(3)

Mirambo, Tippu Tip, and the Demise of Merchant Imperialism

286

(3)

Buganda and the International Trade

289

(2)

Suggestions for Further Reading

291

(2)

PART III Colonial Africa

293

(178)

14 The Partition of Africa

295

(27)

The Berlin Conference

295

(3)

Partition--The Causes

298

(5)

Partition--The Process

303

(7)

Partition--The African Response

310

(4)

Modernization and Independence in Ethiopia

314

(6)

Suggestions for Further Reading

320

(2)

15 Early Nationalist Stirrings in West Africa

322

(23)

Adaptation and Survival

322

(2)

Politics and Commerce in Senegal

324

(4)

Sierra Leone and African Nationalist Self-Consciousness

328

(3)

Edward Blyden Creates a Philosophy of African Nationalism

331

(4)

Liberia and the Tribulations of Independence

335

(2)

The Demise of the Forest Kingdoms

337

(3)

Abortive Alliance--The Westernized Africans and the Traditional Authorities

340

(4)

Suggestions for Further Reading

344

(1)

16 The Foundations of Progress and Poverty in Southern Africa

345

(30)

The Birth of a New Society

345

(1)

Britain and Complexities of Colonial Stewardship

346

(2)

The Revolution of Diamonds and Gold

348

(4)

The Road to Union

352

(6)

The Other Union

358

(5)

Beyond the Limpopo--

363

(5)

--And Across the Zambezi

368

(6)

Suggestions for Further Reading

374

(1)

17 Colonialism and Nation Making in East Africa

375

(24)

The Logic of European Imperialism

375

(1)

British Paternalism in Uganda

376

(4)

Kenya--Racialism in a Colonial Society

380

(4)

Kenya--Alien Rule and African Response

384

(2)

Kenya--The Onset of African Political and Social Aspirations

386

(3)

The Tanganyikan Colony and Mandate

389

(3)

Multiple Colonialism in Zanzibar

392

(2)

British Rule and Nationalist Stirrings in the Nile Valley

394

(3)

Suggestions for Further Reading

397

(2)

18 Between Two World Wars--Nationalist Frustrations in West Africa

399

(25)

West Africa and the First World War

399

(1)

The Theory and Practice of Colonial Administration

400

(4)

Nationalist Politics in West Africa Between the Two World Wars

404

(10)

The National Congress of British West Africa

414

(2)

The Pan-African Movement

416

(3)

Liberia and African Nationalism

419

(3)

Suggestions for Further Reading

422

(2)

19 In the Heart of Darkness

424

(20)

The Unity of Diversity

424

(1)

The Belgian Congo

425

(8)

French Equatorial Africa

433

(5)

Portuguese Angola and Mozambique

438

(4)

Suggestions for Further Reading

442

(2)

20 The Two Societies of Southern Africa

444

(27)

Apartheid--Colonialism in South Africa

444

(7)

Apartheid and the Republic of South Africa

451

(2)

African Nationalism in South Africa

453

(5)

South-West Africa and the High Commission Territories

458

(2)

The Theory and Practice of Partnership in Central Africa

460

(4)

The Rise and Fall of Federation in Central Africa

464

(5)

Suggestions for Further Reading

469

(2)

PART IV Independent Africa

471

(138)

21 Toward Independence

473

(42)

The Foundations of Freedom

473

(6)

The Changing World

479

(2)

Independence Movements in the Northeast

481

(3)

The West African Catalyst

484

(7)

Independence--The French-African Variant

491

(4)

The Crisis of Independence in the Congo

495

(4)

East African Uhuru

499

(8)

Black and White Independence in Central Africa

507

(4)

The Haves and the Have-Nots

511

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

512

(3)

22 Independence Economics

515

(25)

The Meaning of Freedom

515

(1)

Alternatives of Economic Development

516

(4)

The Problems of Modernization

520

(8)

Agriculture

520

(3)

Mining

523

(2)

Industry

525

(3)

The Vagaries of Economic Growth

528

(6)

The Crisis of Foreign Debt

534

(2)

A Faltering Development

536

(3)

Suggestions for Further Reading

539

(1)

23 States and Nations

540

(24)

The Indispensable Unity

540

(1)

Decline of the Parties

541

(8)

The Soldiers

549

(4)

Civil War

553

(10)

Suggestions for Further Reading

563

(1)

24 Disintegrating Citadels in the South

564

(21)

Portugal Bows Out

564

(4)

From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe

568

(4)

Namibia--The Last African Colony

572

(2)

The Afrikaner Laager

574

(4)

"Freedom in Our Lifetime"

578

(4)

A New South Africa

582

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

583

(2)

25 African Cultural Independence--Ideals and Complexities

585

(24)

Negritude

585

(4)

An Independent African Civilization

589

(3)

Europe and the African Personality

592

(4)

The Victims

596

(3)

Independence and the African Woman

599

(3)

Ecological Imperatives

602

(3)

Economic Development and the Wars

605

(2)

Suggestions for Further Reading

607

(2)

Index

609

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