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

 Unesco General History of Africa Volume 6

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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