An edition of Problems in African history
(1993)
Problems in African history
the precolonial centuries
Fourth updated edition.
by Robert O. Collins, James McDonald Burns, and Erik Kristofer Ching
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Problems in African history: the precolonial centuries
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Table of Contents
Introduction to the fourth edition -- by Ruth Lyob
Problem I. Africa and Egypt --
Introduction --
The Hamitic hypothesis: its origin in time -- Edith R. Sanders
Kingship, archaeology, and historical myth -- Merrick Posnansky
The African origins of Western civilization -- Cheikh Anta Diop
A review of Diop -- Raymond Mauny
Black Athena -- Martin Bernal
Kush and Axum -- Stanley Burstein
Suggestions for further reading --
Problem II. African states and trade --
Introduction --
State formation in Uganda -- C.C. Wrigley
Kingdoms of the savanna -- Jan Vansina
The Luba-Lunda empire -- Thomas Reefe
The rise of the Zimbabwe state -- D.N. Beach
Trading states of the oil rivers -- G.I. Jones
On the African diaspora in the Indian Ocean -- Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Richard Pankhurst
Suggestions for further reading --
Problem III. Islam and Africa --
Introduction --
The history of Islam in Africa -- Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels
From ancient to Islamic cities in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
the sword of truth -- Mervyn Hiskett
The jihad of Shehu dan Fodio -- M.G. Smith
19th-century reforms in Hausaland -- M.O. Junaid
The jihad in Hausaland as an episode in African history -- Peter Waterman
Suggestions for further reading --
Problem IV. The role of women in African states and societies --
Introduction --
Queen Nzinga of Angola -- Patricia Romero
Sexual demography -- John Thornton
Female slavery -- Claude Meillassoux
Women in slavery in the Western Sudan -- Martin Klein
The signares : entrepreneurial African women -- George E. Brooks, Jr.
Women as spirit mediums in East Africa -- Iris Berger
Women and state formation in Buganda -- Nakanyike Musisi
Inventing gender : questioning gender in precolonial Yorubaland -- Oyeronke Oyewumi
Suggestions for further reading --
Problem V. Slavery in Africa and the formation of global African diasporas --
Introduction --
African slavery on the Upper Guinea coast -- Walter Rodney
Slavery in Africa -- Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff
Transformations in slavery -- Paul Lovejoy
Commentary on Paul Lovejoy -- Igor Kopytoff
Islamic law and polemics over race and slavery in North and West Africa (16th-19th century) -- John Hunwick
The Asian slave trade -- Robert O. Collins
Diaspora : struggles and connections -- Patrick Manning.
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