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UNESCO — General History of Africa
Volume VII
Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century

 Unesco General History of Africa Volume 7

Contents

List of figures
List of plates
List of tables
Acknowledgements for plates

Preface
Amadou-Mahtar M'bow, Director-General of Unesco
Description of the Project
B. A. Ogot, Former President of the International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
Note on chronology

  1. Africa and the colonial challenge
    A. Adu Boahen
  2. European partition and conquest of Africa: an overview
    G. N. Uzoigwe
  3. African initiatives and resistance in the face of partition and conquest
    T. O. Ranger
  4. African initiatives and resistance in North-East Africa
    H. A. Ibrahim based on a contribution by the late Abbas I. Ali
  5. African initiatives and resistance in North Africa and the Sahara
    A. Laroui
  6. African initiatives and resistance in West Africa, 1880-1914
    M'Baye Gueye and A. Adu Boahen
  7. African initiatives and resistance in East Africa, 188o-1914
    H. A. Mwanzi
  8. African initiatives and resistance in Central Africa, 188o-1914
    A. Isaacman and J. Vansina
  9. African initiatives and resistance in Southern Africa
    D. Chanaiwa
  10. Madagascar, 1880s-1930s: African initiatives and reaction to colonial conquest and domination
    M. Esoavelomandroso
  11. Liberia and Ethiopia, 1880-1914: the survival of two African states
    M. B. Akpan based on contributions from A. B Jones and R. Pankhurst
  12. The First World War and its consequences
    M. Crowder
  13. Methods and institutions of European domination
    R.F. Betts revised by M. Asiwaju
  14. The colonial economy
    W. Rodney
  15. The colonial economy of the former French, Belgian and Portuguese zones, 1914-35
    C. Coquery-Vidrovitch
  16. The colonial economy: the former British zones
    M. H. Y. Kaniki
  17. Colonial North Africa
    1. Part I — The colonial economy: North Africa A. Kassab
    2. Part II — A. A. Abdussalam and F.S. Abusedra
  18. The social repercussions of colonial rule: demographic aspects
    J. C. Caldwell
  19. The social repercussions of colonial rule: the new social structures
    A. E. Afigbo
  20. Religion in Africa during the colonial era
    K. Asare Opoku
  21. The arts in Africa during the period of colonial rule
    Wole Soyinka
  22. African politics and nationalism, 1919-35
    B. O. Oloruntimehin
  23. Politics and nationalism in North-East Africa, 1919-35
    H. A. Ibrahim
  24. Politics and nationalism in the Maghrib and the Sahara, 1919-35
    J. Berque
  25. Politics and nationalism in West Africa, 1919-35
    A. Adu Boahen
  26. Politics and nationalism in East Africa, 1919-35
    E. S. Atieno-Odhiambo
  27. Politics and nationalism in Central and Southern Africa, 1919-35
    B . Davidson, A. Isaacman and R. Pelissier
  28. Ethiopia and Liberia, 1914- 35: two independent African states in the colonial era
    M.B. Akpan based on contributions from A. B Jones and R. Pankhurst
  29. Africa and the New World
    R.D. Ralston with sections on Latin America and the Caribbean by Albuquerque Mourão
  30. Colonialism in Africa: its impact and significance
    A. Adu Boahen

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

Nota Bene. Y. Kwarteng worked as editorial assistant to the volume editor.

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