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SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs.
The period covered by Volume 3 is dominated by two movements of major and lasting significance in the history of Africa: the influence of Islam in the north and west, interacting with traditional African culture; and the Bantu expansion in the south.
The book first places Africa in the context of world history at the opening of the seventh century. Detailed chapters follow discussing the successive Islamic dynasties, the Christian Nubia, the civilizations of the savannas, forests and coast of West Africa, the Horn of Africa, the East African coast and interior, Central Africa, Southern Africa, and Madagascar's internal development and international contacts.
The three concluding chapters trace the African diaspora in Asia, examine international relations and the spread of technology and ideas, and assess the overall impact of the period on African history.
The series is co-published in Africawith seven publishers, in the United States and Canada by the University of California Press, and in association with the UNESCO Press.
Contents
Description of the project; note on chronology; members of the International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa; biographies of the authors; Africa in the context of world histories; the coming of Islam and the expansion of the Muslim empire; stages in the development of Islam and its dissemination in Africa; Islam as a social system in Africa since the 7th century; the peoples of the Sudan - population movements; the Bantu-speaking peoples and their expansion; Egypt and the Arab conquest until the end of the Fatamid state (1171); Christian Nubia in the height of its civilization; the conquest of North Africa and Berbe resistance; the independence of Maghrib; the role of the Sahara and Saharians in the relationships between North and South; the emergence of the Fatamids; the Almoravids; trade and trade routes in West Africa; the Chad region as a crossroads; the Guinea zone - general situation; the Guinean belt - the peoples of Upper Guinea (between Cote d'Ivoire and the Casmance); the Horn of Africa; Ethiopia's relations with the Muslim world; the East African coast and the Comoro Islands; the East African interior; Central Africa to the north of the Zambezi; Central Africa to the south of the Zambezi; Madagascar; the African diaspora in Asia; relations between the different regions of Africa; Africa from the 7th to the 11th century - five formative centuries.
