A History of Africa
Contents
(and malcontents)
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Introduction |
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When the Sahara Was Green |
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The First Steps Toward Civilization |
Chapter 2: Valley of the Pharaohs
Egypt before 664 B.C.
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The Gift of the Nile |
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Most Ancient Egypt |
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The Archaic or Protodynastic Era |
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The Pyramid Age |
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Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt |
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Egyptian Mathematics and Science |
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Ancient Nubia |
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The End of the Old Kingdom |
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The First Intermediate Period |
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The Middle Kingdom |
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The Second Intermediate Period |
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The Rise of the New Kingdom |
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Thutmose I |
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The First Feminist |
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Imperial Egypt |
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The Amarna Revolution |
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The Ramessid Age |
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The Third Intermediate Period |
814 to 264 B.C.
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Elissa's New City |
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The First Phase of the Struggle For Sicily |
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The Dionysian Wars |
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Timoleon's War |
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Agathocles Strikes the Carthaginian Heartland |
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The Pyrrhic Epilogue |
Chapter 4: Africa in the Classical Era
664 B.C. to 641 A.D.
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Egypt: The Late Period |
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The Persian Conquests |
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Alexander's Victory Tour |
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The Good Ptolemies |
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The Bad Ptolemies |
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The Queen of Kings |
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Kush: The Meroitic Phase |
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The End of Pharaonic Egypt |
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Roman Africa |
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North African Christianity |
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Axum |
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The Vandal Kingdom |
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Meanwhile, Below the Sahara |
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Africa's Population In Ancient Times |
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Ancient African Explorers |
641 to 1415
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The Sword of Islam |
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The Settlement of Madagascar |
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Across the Burning Sands |
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The Rise of Ghana |
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Islam Divided |
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Nigerian Surprises |
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The Cities of the Messiah and the Conqueror |
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Cities of Coral |
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Ghana Revisited |
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Medieval Ethiopia and Nubia |
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The Legend of Prester John |
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Mali |
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The Prince of Travelers |
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Kanem, Bornu and the Hausa States |
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Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Zimbabwe: A Heritage Restored |
Chapter 6: The Forest Kingdoms
1415 to 1795
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Prince Henry's Captains |
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The Way to the Orient |
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Songhay |
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Kongo and the Rise of Modern Slavery |
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Mwene Mutapa |
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Cross vs. Crescent: The Indian Ocean and East Africa |
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Cross vs. Crescent: The Mediterranean Front and the Maghreb |
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Morocco and the Sahel Out of Balance |
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East African Tribal Migrations |
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Dutch, French, English and Omani Intruders |
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Benin |
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Oyo and Dahomey |
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Ashanti |
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Luba, Lunda and Kuba |
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The Barbary States |
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The Cape Colony |
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Madagascar Coalesces |
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The Effects of the Slave Trade on Population |
Chapter 7: The Dark Continent Partitioned
1795 to 1914
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Great Britain Comes to South Africa |
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The Napoleonic Gambit |
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The Fulani Jihads |
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"To the Shores of Tripoli" |
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The Golden Age of African Exploration Begins |
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Shaka Zulu |
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Madagascar: The Merina Monarchy |
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Mohammed Ali Modernizes Egypt |
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The Abolitionist Triumph |
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France Invades Algeria |
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Aftershocks of the Mfecane |
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The Great Trek |
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David Livingstone |
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The Quest for the Source of the Nile |
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Egypt in Bondage |
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The Mahdist Revolt |
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Abyssinia Regenerates |
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The Zulu War |
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The "Scramble for Africa," Part I |
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From the Cape to Cairo |
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"Heart of Darkness" |
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From Dakar to Djibouti |
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The Boer War |
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Libya and Morocco: The Last Unturned Stones |
Chapter 8: "Wind of Change"
1914 to 1965
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World War I |
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Troubles in the Italian Empire |
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The Beginnings of African Nationalism |
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The Rif War and Maghreb Nationalism |
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The Road to World War II Passed Through Ethiopia |
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The Liberation of French Africa |
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The See-Saw Struggle in North Africa |
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Decolonization Begins |
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North Africa Rejoins the Arab World |
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The Algerian War |
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The Mau Mau Rebellion |
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"The African Year": Independence Below the Sahara |
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The Congo Crisis |
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South Africa and Rhodesia: Segregation Forever |
Chapter 9: The Independence Era
1965 to 2005
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Independence: Tying Up the Loose Ends |
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Civil War in the Ex-Portuguese Empire |
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Who Owns the Western Sahara? |
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One-Man Rule: |
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 The Good |
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The Bad |
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And the Ugly |
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North Africa Takes a Military Road |
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Tunisia & Egypt |
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Algeria |
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Somalia & Sudan |
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Libya |
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Mauritania |
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Nigeria: The Great Underachiever |
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The Horn of Africa: Horn of Famine |
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Ethiopia & Eritrea |
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Somalia |
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Southern Africa: The Fall of Apartheid |
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Rhodesia/Zimbabwe |
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South Africa |
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Southwest Africa/Namibia |
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Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo: Still the Dark Heart of Africa |
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The Island at the End of the World |
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America's Stepchild and Her Anarchic Neighbors |
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Liberia |
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The Ivory Coast |
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Sierra Leone |
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The Islamist Menace |
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Starting Over Again With the African Union |
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Modern African Demographics |
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The Challenges Facing Modern Africa |
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