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Author: Mary Quigley Publisher: Capstone Classroom ISBN: 9781403400987 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 68
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Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
Author: Mary Quigley Publisher: Capstone Classroom ISBN: 9781403400987 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 68
Book Description
Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
Author: Daryll Forde Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 042995851X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 300
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Originally published in 1967 this volume presents studies of 10 West African kingdoms which have played an important part in the economic, political and cultural life of the region. Ranging geographically from the kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria to the Wolof kingdom of Kayor in Senegal, they inlcude the Oyo Yoruba, Dahomey, Hausa, Maradi, Kom in West Cameroon, the Mossi, Ashanti and Gonja and the Mende chiefdoms of Sierra Leone. Each outlines the historical origins and development of the kingdom and analyses its organization in the nineteenth century. It includes accounts of the economic basis and resources of the state and the significance of tribute and trade, of the social categories among its population, the administrarive machinery and communnications, the judicial and military organization and external relations. It also considers the importance of the ideology and rituals of kingship.
Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0821445669 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 459
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There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa’s prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines. The contents of the book comprise an introduction and thirteen chapters divided into three parts. Each chapter provides an overview of existing literature on major topics, as well as a short list of recommended reading, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research. The first part of the book examines paths to a West African past, including perspectives from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two probes environment, society, and agency and historical change through essays on the slave trade, social inequality, religious interaction, poverty, disease, and urbanization. Part three sheds light on contemporary West Africa in exploring how economic and political developments have shaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. Themes in West Africa’s History represents a range of intellectual views and interpretations from leading scholars on West Africa’s history. It will appeal to college undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the way it draws on different disciplines and expertise to bring together key themes in West Africa’s history, from prehistory to the present.
Author: Patricia McKissack Publisher: Square Fish ISBN: 1250113512 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.
Author: Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure Publisher: World Eras ISBN: 9780787660475 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume, focusing on West African kingdoms and empires, presents topical entries on events, ideas, developments, material conditions, and personalities.
Author: Kenny Mann Publisher: ISBN: 9780875186566 Category : Ghana (Empire) Languages : en Pages : 108
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A study of the legends and history of the ancient West African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay, including background and commentary on Islam's influence in the region
Author: Michael Gomez Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691196826 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 520
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In a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam's growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.
Author: Mary Quigley
Author: Mary Quigley
Author: Beth Nelson
Author: Jane Shuter
Author: Daryll Forde
Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Author: Patricia McKissack
Author: Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure
Author: Kenny Mann
Author: Michael Gomez
Author: David C. Conrad