Africa from the twelfth to the sixteenth century
Print Book, English, 1997
J. Currey ; University of California Press, Oxford, Berkeley, 1997
History
xxii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780520066991, 9780852550946, 9780435948108, 0520066995, 0852550944, 0435948105
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Introduction
The unification of the Maghrib under the Almohads
The spread of civilization in the Maghrib and its impact on western civilization
The disintegration of political unity in the Maghrib
Society in the Maghrib after the disppearance of the Almohads
Mali and the second Mande expansion
The decline of the empire of Mali: the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries
The Songhay from the twelfth to the sixteenth century
The peoples and kingdoms of the Niger Bend and the Volta basin from the twelfth to the sixteenth century
The kingdoms and peoples of Chad
The Hausa and The horn of Africa : the Solomonids in Ethiopia and the states of the Horn of Africa
The development of Swahili civilization
Between the coast and the great lakes
The Great Lakes region
The Zambezi and Limpopo basins : 1100-1500
Equatorial Africa and Angola : migrations and the emergence of the first states
Southern Africa : its peoples and social structures
Madagascar and the neighboring islands from the twelfth to the sixteenth century
Relationships and exchanges among the different regions
Africa in inter-continental relations
Conclusion
At head of title: International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa (UNESCO)