Lost Cities of Africa

Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores.

Preface to This Edition

vii

Introduction The Rediscovery of Africa

xiii

The Peopling of Ancient Africa

1

(22)

The Possibility of African History

3

(4)

Lines of Migration

7

(5)

The Desert Barrier

12

(4)

Giants and Heroes

16

(7)

The Mystery of Meroe

23

(28)

Lords of the Southern Frontier

25

(9)

Egypt, Libya, Kush

34

(2)

Meroe

36

(4)

The Triumph of Kush

40

(7)

An Athens in Africa?

47

(4)

Kingdoms of the Old Sudan

51

(53)

Early West Africa: Discoveries at Nok

53

(6)

From Kush and Carthage

59

(5)

The Coming of Iron

64

(7)

``Business with the King of Timbuktu''

71

(10)

Ghana

81

(9)

Mali

90

(8)

Songhay

98

(6)

The Sao and Kanem

104

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Lost Cities of Africa

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