Into Africa
Subtitle: a journey through the ancient empires
By: Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle
Contributors: Hirtle, Sheila
Publisher: Key Porter Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781552630549
Subjects: Social life and customs; Travel; Civilization; Manners and customs; Description and travel
Notes: Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-386) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1 Monomotapa; title: Great Zimbabwe; title: The high hills of Chimanimani; title: The Makuni of Zambia; title: Monomotapa's heirs; title: "This deadly thing"; title: The Luba-Lunda and the Zairian pogroms; title: The crocodile man; title: Among the lions; title: Ngorongoro and Serengeti; title: Among the Maasi; title: Pt. 2 The land of Zanj and the birth of the Swahili; title: The sharks of Mogadishu; title: Lamu and Shela; title: Mombasa; title: Zanibar and mafia; title: Dar es Salaam and the tanzanian littoral; title: Kilwa kisiwani, the royal city; title: Golden Sofala; title: Pt. 3 Towards Azania; title: The view from the Thaba Bosiu; title: Azania; title: Sobhuza's heirs; title: The Kalahari; title: The thirstland and the skeleton coast; title: Pt. 4 Kongo; title: The manikongo kings and the dark queen of the Mbundu; title: The congo river; title: Loango; title: Bangui; title: Gabon; title: Equatorial Guinea; title: Sao Tome and Principe; title: Cameroon; title: Pt. 5 The Gulf of Guninea; title: The rain forests of Cameroon; title: The little kingdoms.; title: Ife, Oyo, and Benin; title: Dahomey; title: The Ashanti; title: The Ivory Coast; title: Slavery's stephchildren : Liberia and Sierra Leone; title: Pt. 6 The Sabel : the golden empires of the sun; title: Old Ghana; title: The kingdom of Mali; title: Songhai; title: Kanem-Bornu; title: The Tuareg and Timbuktu; title: The Fulani; title: The Hausa Kingdoms; title: Colonial Sahel; title: The Dogon; title: Pt. 7 The Maghreb and the Barbary coast; title: The old Maghredb; title: Morocco; title: Algeria; title: Tunisia; title: Libya; title: Pt. 8; title: The longest river; title: Egypt; title: Meroe and kush; title: Axum and Ethiopia Pt. 9 The great rift; title: Th Baganda kings; title: The mountains of the moon; title: Rwanda and Burundi; title: The Kenya highlands; title: The world according to Moi; title: Olduvai and Lucy's kin.