Medieval Africa, 1250}}}1800 [Hardcover]

A revised edition of The African Middle Ages 14001800, ideal for University and college teaching.This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes African history from about 1250 AD, when African societies were expanding their political and economic scope, and when Islamic influences were already reaching across the Sahara and down the Indian Ocean coastline. It continues through the period of early European contact from the fifteenth century onward, with much emphasis on expanding Atlantic trade.This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes African history from about 1250 AD, when African societies were expanding their political and economic scope, and when Islamic influences were already reaching across the Sahara and down the Indian Ocean coastline. It continues through the period of early European contact from the fifteenth century onward, with much emphasis on expanding Atlantic trade.This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes African history from about 1250 AD, when African societies were expanding their political and economic scope, and when Islamic influences were already reaching across the Sahara and down the Indian Ocean coastline. It continues through the period of early European contact from the fifteenth century onward, with much emphasis on expanding Atlantic trade.1. Introduction; 2. Egypt; 3. Ifriqiya and the Regencies; 4. The Islamic Far West; 5. The Western Sudan and Upper Guinea; 6. The Central Sudan and Lower Guinea; 7. Nubia, Darfur and Wadai; 8. The North-Eastern triangle; 9. The Upper Nile Basin and the East African Plateau; 10. The heart of Africa; 11. The land of the Blacksmith Kings; 12. From the Lualaba to the Zambezi; 13. The approaches to Zimbabwe; 14. The peoples of the South. ...an iló…