UNESCO - General History of Africa: Volume VI

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Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s

Editor
Professor J.F.A. Ajayi (Nigeria)

Summary:
Major revolutions took place in Africa during this period: the Mfecane in southern Africa and the Islamic revolutions in West Africa resulted in the emergence of new States. At the same time as these internal changes were taking place, the Europeans were expanding their relations with Africa while the abolition of slavery was bringing about changes in trade and within African societies.

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editions

Main edition

English:	1989, Heinemann/ UNESCO/ University of California Press
French:	1996, UNESCO/NEA
Arabic:	1996, UNESCO

Abridged edition

English:	1997, UNESCO/ James Currey/ University of California Press
French:	1997, UNESCO/ Edicef/ Présence Africaine

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Chapter 1: Africa at the beginning of the nineteenth century: issues and prospects
J. F. A. AJAYI

Chapter 2: Africa and the world-economy
I. WALLERSTEIN

Chapter 3: New trends and processes in Africa in the nineteenth century
A. A. BOAHEN

Chapter 4: The abolition of the slave trade
S. DAGET

Chapter 5: The Mfecane and the rise of new African States
L. D. NGCONGCO

Chapter 6: The impact of the Mfecane on the Cape Colony
A. K. MASHINGAIZE

Chapter 7: The British, Boers and Africans in South Africa, 1850-1880
N. BHEBE

Chapter 8: The countries of the Zambezi basin
A. F. ISAACMAN

Chapter 9: The East African coast and hinterland, 1800-1845
A. I. SALIM

Chapter 10: The East African coast and hinterland, 1845-1880
I.N. KIMAMBO

Chapter 11: Peoples and states of the Great Lakes region
D. W. COHEN

Chapter 12: The Congo Basin and Angola
J-L VELLUT

Chapter 13: The renaissance of Egypt, 1805-1881
A. ABDEL-MALEK

Chapter 14: The Sudan in the nineteenth century
H. A.IBRAHIM, with a contribution by B. A. OGOT

Chapter 15: Ethiopia and Somalia
R. K. P. PANKHURST, with some notes on Somali history supplied by L. V. CASSANELLI

Chapter 16: Madagascar, 1800-1880
P. M. MUTIBWA, with a contribution by F. V. ESOAVELOMANDROSO

Chapter 17: New trends in the Maghrib: Algeria, Tunisia and Libya
M. H. CHERIF

Chapter 18: Morocco from the beginning of the nineteenth century to 1880
A. LAROUI

Chapter 19: New patterns of European intervention in the Maghrib
N. A. IVANANOV

Chapter 20: The Sahara in the nineteenth century
S. BAIER

Chapter 21: The nineteenth-century Islamic revolutions in West Africa
A. BATRAN

Chapter 22: The Sokoto caliphate and Borno
M. LAST

Chapter 23: Massina and the Torodbe (Tukuloor) empire until 1878
M. LY-TALL

Chapter 24: States and peoples of Senegambia and Upper Guinea
Y. PERSON

Chapter 25: States and peoples of the Niger Bend and the Volta
K. ARHIN & J. KI-ZERBO

Chapter 26: Dahomey, Yorubaland, Borgu and Benin in the nineteenth century
I. ASIWAJU

Chapter 27: The Niger delta and the Cameroon region
E. J. ALAGOA, with contributions by LOVETT Z. ELANGO and N. METEGUE

Chapter 28: The African Diaspora
F. W. KNIGHT, with contributions by Y. TALIB and P. D. CURTIN

Chapter 29: Conclusion: Africa on the eve of the European conquest
J. F. A. AJAYI