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  • African Civilization Revisited: From Antiquity to Modern Times
  • Written by author Basil Risbridger Davidson
  • Published by Africa Research & Publications, 1995/02/07
  • This book is concerned with the story of Africa from antiquity to modern times, as told in the chronicles and records of chiefs and kings, travelers and merchant-adventurers, poets and pirates and priests, soldiers and persons of learning. Framed and
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Introduction: Africa In History
The stages of the Past
African and Asian Records
The Western Contribution
Unity and Continuity
Antiquity
Harkhuf: Four Journeys to the Unknown South
Pepi-nakt: Early Empire-Building
Tuthmosis III: Trade and Tribute
Piankhi: Kush in Egypt
The Greek Historians
Herodotus: The gift of the Nile
Diodorus Siculus: "The First of All Men"
Herodotus: Gods from Egypt
Strabo: Sailing to India
Herodotus: A City Named Meroe, Carthage Trades South 66
Ezana: The Fall of Meroe
Desmond Clark: Stone Age Art
Early West Africa
Bernard Fagg: The Nok Culture
Frank Willett: Two Thousand Years of Sculpture
Muhammad Bello: Where the Yoruba Came From
Samuel Johnson: Yoruba Traditions
Saburi Biobaku: Yoruba Origins-A Modern View
Tamsir Niane and Suret-Canale: Foundations of Ghana
Al Yakubi: The King of Ghana
Al Bekri: Ghana in 1067, Royal Finances 87
Anonymous: Sundiata's Triumph
Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate: The Epic of Old Mali
Al Omari: Mali in the Fourteenth Century
Travelling through Cairo, The Empire of Mall, Reception at Court, The Importance of Horses,
Royal Bureaucracy, Ocean Travels
Ibn Battuta: Travels in Mali
Pomp and Circumstance, Security and Justice, Women and Men
Kano Chronicle: The Hausa States
Diplomacy, Warfare
Al Maghili: Social Reform in Songhay
The Seventh Question, The Answer
Ahmed Ibn Fartua: Kanem and Turkey
Kati: Bound and Free in 1508
The Duty of Vassals, A Dwindling Power
Es-sa'di: Djenne
Leo Africanus: The Book Trade at Timbuktu
Egharevba: The Empire of Benin
Origins, Legend and Fact, A Ruler from Ife, A Discontented Prince, Brass-casting, Ewuare the
Great, Guns and Coconuts, and Missionaries
Al Mas'udi: The Country of Zanj
The Ivory Trade
Freeman-Grenville: The Ivory Trade: A Modern View
Idrisi: The Export of Iron
Freeman-Grenville: Money Talks
Yu-Yang-Tsa-Tsu: The Blood-Drinkers
Chao Ju-Kua: Slaves from Madagascar
Early Zanzibar
Chang Hsieh: Advice to Traders
Kilwa Chronicle: Emergence of Kilwa
Ibn Battuta: Kilwa in 1331
Medieval Ethiopia: A Strong Ruler
Kilwa Chronicle: Vasco da Gama
pate Chronicle: Seafaring
Vasco da Gama's Logbook: The End of an Epoch
Mossell Bay: The Hottentots Quilimane: First Impact Mozambique: A New World Malindi: An
Offer of Pilots, Journey to India
Duarte Barbosa: Swahili Civilization
Sofala, The Zambezi Mouths, Angoya, Mozambique Island, Kilwa, Mombasa, Malindi, Pemba, Mafia,
Zanzibar, Pate and Lamu, Brava, Mogadishu
Hans Mayr: The Sack of Two Cities
Kilwa, Mombasa
Diogo de Alcancova: Kilwa Traffic
An Inland Epic
D.P. Abraham: Conquest and Challenge
Changa Succeeds
Diogo de Alcancova: "Kings and Barons"
Pedro Vaz Soares: Peace at Last
Duarte Barbosa: Monomotapa
Joao de Barros: Mines and Fortresses
Joao dos Santos: South-central Africa in 1590-1600
Sofala, Kingdom of the Quiteve, Far Up the Zambezi, The Kingdom of Monomotapa
Antonio Boccarro: The Deal with Portugal
Advices from Goa: Destruction of Monomotapa
King of Portugal: Civilities
Manoel Barreto: Realities
The Gold Fails
West Africa Meets Europe
Ruy de Pina: The Building of El Mina Castle
Portuguese Reach Benin
Duarte Pacheco Pereira: Inland Kingdoms
Duarte Pires: The King of Benin
Alonso de Palencia: A Spanish Raid
Affonso of Congo: Evils of the trade
How Slaving Began, A Call for Aid
Abreu de Brito: Angolan Currency
John Landye: Guinea Cargoes
Richard Eden: English at Benin
Gold and Ivory
William Towerson: Metal Goods
John Hawkins: Towards the Slave Trade
D.R.: Dutch Merchants in Benin
Andreas Josua Ultzheimer: Benin in 1603
David Van Nyendael: Manners at Benin
Richard Jobson: Mandingo towns
Lords and Vassals, Gambia Craftsmanship
Oliveira Cadornega: A Million Slaves
The Eighteenth Century
John Barbot: The Trade in Captives
John Casseneuve: Docile Slaves?
"Boston Post Boy": Revolt at Sea
James Barbot: Slaving Manners
The System in Angola, An Angolan "Zimbabwe"
William Bosman: A Report on Gold
The Guinea Partnership, Guns for Africa
Michel Adanson: A Scientific traveller
John Atkins: Ouidah in 1721
William Smith: The Palace of Benin
Richard Brew: A Dearth of Victims
Captain Heatley: The Reverence of Kings
John Newton: Some Slave Trade Realities
James Penny: The Business of King
Company Directors: Abuses of the Trade
John Johnston: The Price of Slaves
C.B. Wadstrom: An Enlightened Ruler
Archibald Dalzell: Rise of Dahomey
Robert Norris: Oyo and Dahomey
Abbe Proyart: Congo Government
Olaudah Equiano: In Iboland
Thomas Winterbottom: A Wider Picture
Nicotine and Kola
James Bruce: Ethiopian Encounters
Adventure at Gondar, The Civil Wars, Cavalry of Sennar, Ruins of Meroe
Andrew Sparrman : The Hottentots
The Bushmen
The Nineteenth Century
Frederic Caillaud: Rediscovering Kush
John Barrow: Beyond the Orange River
Henry Fynn: Shaka the Zulu
Edouard Casalis: In the Wake of Many Wars
Moshesh of the Basuto
Robert Moffat: Chief Moselekatse
Antonio Gamitto: The Land of Kazembe
Marave Bridges, Metallurgy, Devastation, King Kazembe
David Livingstone: Central Africa in the 1840s
The Roots of Apartheid, Boer Policy, African Justice, Security, Gold and Iron
James Prior: Kilwa in Ruins
Songo Minara
W.F.W. Owen: After the Deluge
Abdullah ben Nasir: Lament for Greatness
Arnauld d'Abbadie: On the Meaning of Gifts
Mungo Park: To the Niger
The King of Bondou, "Broad as the Thames at West-minster", Segu, "Pity the White Man, Faint and
Weary...", A Slave Coffle
Uthman dan Fodio: Reformation
The Old Habe Kingdoms, Five Rules of Government
Abdullah Ibn Muhammad: Against Bad Rulers
Muhammad Bello: Jihad
Hugh Clapperton: Sultan Muhammad Bello
Al Hajji Sa'id: Muhammad Bello
Thomas Bowdich: At Kumasi
Brodie Cruickshank: Political Background
Heinrich Barth : The Western Sudan
Kano in Mid-Century, Finding the Tarikh es-Sudan, Timbuktu, Industry and Trade
Martin Delany: On Slavery
Robert Campbell: Yoruba Government
Winwood Reade: In the Oil Rivers
Edward Blyden: A West African Spartacus
Back to Africa
Mary Kingsley: In the Gaboon
Ascent of the Ogowe, Adventures in the Forest, Advantages of Wearing a Skirt
Macemba: Facing Invasion
Sir David Chalmers: The "Hut tax War" in Sierra Leone
The Twentieth Century: A Few Signposts
K. Schwabe: Colonial Conquest
Leo Frobenius: Leopold's Congo
R. Meinertzhagen: White Man's Country?
Charles Domingo: The African Awakening
Theodore Monod: Rediscovering Africa
Vinigi Grottanelli: Points of Arrival
Onwuka Dike : African History
 
Acknowledgments
 
Index


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