Old Africa rediscovered
By: by Basil Davidson
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 1960
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: History; Civilization; Civilisation; Histoire
Description: This book is about Africa and Africans, south of the Sahara Desert, during the fifteen hundred years or so before the colonial period began.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277).
Table of contents: title: One: The peopling of ancient Africa; title: The possibility of African history; title: Lines of migration; title: The desert barrier; title: Giants and heroes; title: Two: The mystery of Meroe; title: Lords of the Southern Frontier; title: Egypt, Libya, Kush; title: Meroe; title: The triumph of Kush; title: An Athens in Africa?; title: Three: Kingdoms of the Old Sudan; title: Early West Africa: Discoveries at Nok; title: From Kush to Carthage; title: The Coming of iron; title: "Business with the King of Timbuktu"; title: Ghana; title: Mali; title: Songhay; title: The Sao and Kanem; title: In Darfur; title: Eclipse and survival; title: Four: Between the Niger and the Congo; title: Beyond the Savannah; title: The Great distortion; title: Benin; title: Unity in diversity; title: Five: To the southward; title: The Southern Zanj; title: Discoveries at Kalambo; title: The foundations of Southern Civilization; title: Six: Traders of the Indian Ocean; title: Sheba's Cities; title: Sailing down Africa; title: The nature of the trade; title: China and Africa; title: Seven: Fair Cities of stone; title: A forgotten Civilization; title: Arab or African?; title: Steps to the interior; title: Eight: After Axum; title: The Greatness of Ethiopia; title: Engaruka; title: The Old Roads of Kenya; title: Azanian history; title: Who were the Azanians?; title: Nine: The builders of the south; title: "An exceeding great country"; title: Zimbabwe; title: King Solomon's mines?; title: Verdict from the evidence; title: Medieval Rhodesia; title: The Golden burials of Mapungubwe; title: In the Old Transvaal; title: Niekerk and Inyanga: Forts and terraces; title: Ten: The reality behind the ruins; title: Some points of comparison; title: A period of greatness; title: The bud and the flower; title: What is now required; title: Eleven: Decline and fall; title: The fabric of society; title: Barbarians at the Gate; title: The Gate flung Open; title: Twelve: History begins anew.