This book provides new perspectives on African history and culture, surveying the wide array of societies and states that have existed on the African continent

This title has been updated in the 2019 publication Africa: History and Culture Before 1900, Second Edition. Africa: Volume 2 is part of a series of books which

Breaking new ground in African historiography, the authors cover the period from pre-historic times to post independent Africa. Drawing on a wide range of sourc

A classic book on African history as told in the chronicles and records of chiefs and kings, travellers and merchant-adventurers, poets and pirates and priests,