New Dimensions in African History
Author : Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : John Henrik Clarke
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780933121775
African history as world history: Africa and the Roman Empire -- Africa and the rise of Islam -- The mighty kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay -- The Atlantic slave trade: Slavery and resistance in South America and the Caribbean -- Slavery and resistance in the United States -- African Americans in the twentieth century.
Author : John Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0192802488
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Author : Ahati N. N. Toure
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"In the late 1960s through the late 1980s, the late John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) was one of the foremost architects of the emerging discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy as Professor of African World History in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York and as the Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Visiting Professor of African History at Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center. The study explores Clarke's development and conceptualization of Afrikan World History by examining his intellectual influences and training, his approach to teaching Afrikan World History, his notions regarding."--Publisher's website.
Author : Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0253051509
The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba past and present.
Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521806626
This book examines the global unfolding of the African Diaspora, the migrations and dispersals of people of African, from antiquity to the modern period. Their exploits, challenges, and struggles are discussed over a wide expanse of time in ways that link as well as differentiate past and present circumstances. The experiences of Africans in the Old World, in the Mediterranean and Islamic worlds, is followed by their movement into the New, where their plight in lands claimed by Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French and English colonial powers is analyzed from enslavement through the Cold War. While appropriate mention is made of persons of renown, particular attention is paid to the everyday lives of working class people and their cultural efflorescence. The book also attempts to explain contemporary plights and struggles through the lens of history.
Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1400888166
A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including Arabic manuscripts, oral histories, and recent archaeological findings, Michael Gomez unveils a new vision of how categories of ethnicity, race, gender, and caste emerged in Africa and in global history more generally. Scholars have long held that such distinctions arose during the colonial period, but Gomez shows they developed much earlier. Focusing on the Savannah and Sahel region, Gomez traces the exchange of ideas and influences with North Africa and the Central Islamic Lands by way of merchants, scholars, and pilgrims. Islam’s growth in West Africa, in tandem with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire. A major preoccupation was the question of who could be legally enslaved, which together with other factors led to the construction of new ideas about ethnicity, race, gender, and caste—long before colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. Telling a radically new story about early Africa in global history, African Dominion is set to be the standard work on the subject for many years to come.
Author : John Iliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107198321
An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
Author : David Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521533669
Examining a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization, Africanization) and case studies from North, West and East Africa, this book gives snapshots of Muslim societies in Africa over the last millennium. In contrast to traditions which suggest that Islam did not take root in Africa, author David Robinson shows the complex struggles of Muslims in the Muslim state of Morocco and in the Hausaland region of Nigeria. He portrays the ways in which Islam was practiced in the 'pagan' societies of Ashanti (Ghana) and Buganda (Uganda) and in the ostensibly Christian state of Ethiopia - beginning with the first emigration of Muslims from Mecca in 615 CE, well before the foundational hijra to Medina in 622. He concludes with chapters on the Mahdi and Khalifa of the Sudan and the Murid Sufi movement that originated in Senegal, and reflections in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001.
Author : John Parker
Publisher :
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 019957247X
Provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa