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Author : Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1613747454
This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.
Author : Joseph O. Vogel
Publisher : Altamira Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
An excellent introduction to Africanist archaeology for undergraduate students and general readers. Part one provides context: the presentation of environmental information, research histories, and background to the technologies, languages, and lifeways of sub-Saharan Africa. The remainder of the encyclopedia carries the narrative from the physical development of humanity through the adaptive stages of stone-using foragers, food producers, and complex societies, to the residues of historically recorded times and the investigation of identifiable sites in the historical record. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Klas Rönnbäck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317222164
Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our understanding of West African economic development.
Author : Richard Gray
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford U.P.
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : F. J. Nöthling
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Robert O. Collins
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780810875807
The A to Z of Pre-Colonial Africa seeks to familiarize the reader with pre-colonial Africa, the Africa that began with the migrations of the Bantu from their homeland in 500 B.C. and ended with European control in the 19th century, revealing the culture, events, achievement an...
Author : Robert O. Collins
Publisher : Historical Dictionaries of Anc
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
This dictionary provides information about Africa before European colonial rule. It features details of African culture, history, rulers, migrations, wars, and contact between Africans and Arab, Asian, and European travelers. An introductory essay offers background information on Africa's past, and a chronology outlines the principle events of African history. An appendix traces the rise and fall of various African dynasties. Collins is an emeritus professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Donald R. Wehrs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131707629X
In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French) and indigenous (Hausa and Yoruba) languages. He explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in seven texts: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911), Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (1934), Paul Hazoumé's Doguicimi (1938), D.O. Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1938), Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958). Wehrs highlights the role of pre-colonial political economies and articulations of state power on colonial-era considerations of ethical and political issues, and is attentive to the gendered implications of texts and authorial choices. By positioning Things Fall Apart as the culmination of a tradition, rather than as its inaugural work, he also reconfigures how we think of African fiction. His book supplements recent work on the importance of indigenous contexts and discourses in situating colonial-era narratives and will inspire fresh methodological strategies for studying the continent from a multiplicity of perspectives.
Author : Emmanuel Akyeampong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107041155
Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.
Author : V. Tarikhu Farrar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1793606439
The idea of an inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in early sub-Saharan Africa is a persistent and tenacious myth in the scholarly and popular imagination. Due to the emergence of the field of African studies and the upsurge in historical and archaeological research, in recent decades the stridency of this myth has weakened, and the overtly racist content of arguments mustered in its defense have tended to disappear. But more important are transformations in social, political, and cultural consciousness, which have worked to reshape conceptualizations of African peoples, their histories, and their cultures. Precolonial African Material Culture offers a thorough challenge to the myth of technological backwardness. V. Tarikhu Farrar revisits the early technology of sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by recent research and reconsiders long-possessed primary historical sources. He then explores the ways that indigenous African technologies have influenced the world beyond the African continent.