TY - BOOK AU - Shillington, Kevin TI - History of Africa SN - 0333454073 U1 - 960 23 KW - evolution of mankind KW - early farming in the sahara N1 - includes indexes; 1. Early prehistory of Africa 2. Later prehistory: the development and spread of farming and pastoralism 3. The impact of iron in Northeast and West Africa 4. The early iron age and Bantu migrations 5. North and northeastern Africa to 1000AD 6. Trans-Saharan trade and the kingdom of ancient Ghana 7. Islam and the Sudanic states of west Africa 8. Eastern Africa to the sixteenth century 9. Trading states of the East African coast to the sixteenth century 10. Later iron age states and societies of central and southern Africa to 1600 AD 11. North and Northeast Africa to the eighteenth century 12. The Atlantic slave trade, sixteenth to eighteenth 13. West African states and societies to the eighteenth century 14. Central and eastern Africa to the eighteenth century 15. Southern Africa to the eighteenth century 16. West Africa in the nineteenth century and the ending of the slave trade 17. East and central Africa in the nineteenth century 18. Pre-industrial southern Africa in the nineteenth century 19. North and northeast Africa in the nineteenth century 20. Prelude to empire in Tropical Africa 21. The European ‘scramble’, colonial conquest and African resistance in east, north-central and west Africa 22. Industrialisation, colonial conquest and African resistance in south-central and southern Africa 23. Consolidation of empire: the early period of colonial rule 24. Africa between the wars: the high tide of colonial rule 25. The second world war and Africa 26. The winning of independence (1) 27. The winning of independence (2) 28. Africa since independence ER -