Problems in African history
Subtitle: the precolonial centuries
By: edited by Robert O. Collins and Ruth Iyob
Edition: Fourth updated edition.
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781558765832
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the fourth edition  -- by Ruth Lyob; title: Problem I. Africa and Egypt --; title: Introduction --; title: The Hamitic hypothesis: its origin in time  -- Edith R. Sanders; title: Kingship, archaeology, and historical myth  -- Merrick Posnansky; title: The African origins of Western civilization  -- Cheikh Anta Diop; title: A review of Diop  -- Raymond Mauny; title: Black Athena  -- Martin Bernal; title: Kush and Axum  -- Stanley Burstein; title: Suggestions for further reading --; title: Problem II. African states and trade --; title: Introduction --; title: State formation in Uganda  -- C.C. Wrigley; title: Kingdoms of the savanna  -- Jan Vansina; title: The Luba-Lunda empire  -- Thomas Reefe; title: The rise of the Zimbabwe state  -- D.N. Beach; title: Trading states of the oil rivers  -- G.I. Jones; title: On the African diaspora in the Indian Ocean  -- Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Richard Pankhurst; title: Suggestions for further reading --; title: Problem III. Islam and Africa --; title: Introduction --; title: The history of Islam in Africa  -- Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels; title: From ancient to Islamic cities in Sub-Saharan Africa  -- Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch; title: the sword of truth  -- Mervyn Hiskett; title: The jihad of Shehu dan Fodio  -- M.G. Smith; title: 19th-century reforms in Hausaland  -- M.O. Junaid; title: The jihad in Hausaland as an episode in African history  -- Peter Waterman; title: Suggestions for further reading --; title: Problem IV. The role of women in African states and societies --; title: Introduction --; title: Queen Nzinga of Angola  -- Patricia Romero; title: Sexual demography  -- John Thornton; title: Female slavery  -- Claude Meillassoux; title: Women in slavery in the Western Sudan  -- Martin Klein; title: The signares : entrepreneurial African women  -- George E. Brooks, Jr.; title: Women as spirit mediums in East Africa  -- Iris Berger; title: Women and state formation in Buganda  -- Nakanyike Musisi; title: Inventing gender : questioning gender in precolonial Yorubaland  -- Oyeronke Oyewumi; title: Suggestions for further reading --; title: Problem V. Slavery in Africa and the formation of global African diasporas --; title: Introduction --; title: African slavery on the Upper Guinea coast  -- Walter Rodney; title: Slavery in Africa  -- Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff; title: Transformations in slavery  -- Paul Lovejoy; title: Commentary on Paul Lovejoy  -- Igor Kopytoff; title: Islamic law and polemics over race and slavery in North and West Africa (16th-19th century)  -- John Hunwick; title: The Asian slave trade  -- Robert O. Collins; title: Diaspora : struggles and connections -- Patrick Manning.