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UNESCO — General History of Africa Volume VI Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s

Contents

Note on chronology
Key for Maps
List of figures
List of plates
Acknowledgements for plates

Preface
Amadou-Mahtar M'bow, Director-General of Unesco (1974-1987)
Description of the project
B. A. Ogot, President of the International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa (1978-1983)

1. Africa at the beginning of the nineteenth century: issues and prospects
   J. F. A. Ajayi
2. Africa and the world-economy
   I. Wallerstein
3. New trends and processes in Africa in the nineteenth century
   A. A. Boahen
4. The abolition of the slave trade
   S. Daget
5. The Mfecane and the rise of new African states
   L. D. Ngcongco
6. The impact of the Mfecane on the Cape Colony
   E. K. Mashingaidze
7. The British, Boers and Africans in South Africa, 1850-80
   N. Bhebe
8. The countries of the Zambezi basin
   A. F. Isaacman
9. The East African coast and hinterland, 1800-45
   A. I. Salim
10. The East African coast and hinterland, 1845-80
    I. N. Kimambo
11. Peoples and states of the Great Lakes region
    D.W. Cohen
12. The Congo Basin and Angola
    J.L. Vellut
13. The renaissance of Egypt, 1805-81
    A. Abdel-Malek
14. The Sudan in the nineteenth century
    H. A. Ibrahim with a contribution on the Southern Sudan by B.A. Ogot
15. Ethiopia and Somalia
    R. Pankhurst with some notes on Somali history supplied by L. V. Cassanelli
16. Madagascar 1800-80
    P.M. Mutibwa with a contribution by F. V. Esoa Velo-Mandroso
17. New trends in the Maghrib: Algeria, Tunisia and Libya
    M. H. Cherif
18. Morocco from the beginning of the nineteenth century to 1880
    A. Laraoui
19. New patterns of European intervention in the Maghrib
    N. Ivanov
20. The Sahara in the nineteenth century
    S. Baier
21. The nineteenth-century Islamic revolutions in West Africa
    A. Batran
22. The Sokoto caliphate and Borno
    M. Last
23. Massina and the Toroɓɓe (Tukuloor) empire until 1878
    M. Ly-Tall
24. States and peoples of Senegambia and Upper Guinea
    Y. Person
25. States and peoples of the Niger Bend and the Volta
    K. Arhin and J. Ki -Zerbo
26. Dahomey, Yorubaland, Borgu and Benin in the nineteenth century
    A. I. Asiwaju
27. The Niger delta and the Cameroon region
    E. J. Alagoa with contributions on the Cameroon by L. Z. Elango and on Gabon by M. Metegue N'nah
28. The African diaspora
    F. W. Knight with contributions by Y. Talib and P. D. Curtin
29. Conclusion: Africa on the eve of the European conquest
    J.F. A. Ajayi

Members of the International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa
Biographies of Authors
Bibliography
Index

M. Omolewa worked as editorial assistant to the volume editor.

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