Documents from the African Past,9781558762893

Documents from the African Past

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ISBN13: 9781558762893
ISBN10: 1558762892
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Pub. Date: 2001-06-01
Publisher(s): Markus Wiener Pub
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Author Biography

Robert O. Collins, University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of numerous scholarly books, including The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988. His 1984 book, Shadow in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1918-1956, won the John Ben Snow Prize for the best book in British Studies

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Anonymous Periplus of Erythraean Sea. First Century C.E.
1(1)
Trade in Ethiopia. 547
2(3)
Cosmas Indicopleustes
China's Discovery of Africa. 863
5(3)
Tuan Ch'eng-Shih
The East African Coast. 1331
8(6)
Ibn Battuta
Mali. 1352
14(2)
Ibn Battuta
Tawat and the Western Sudan Trade. 1447
16(4)
Antonius Malfante
The Discovery of Guinea. 1435
20(5)
Gomes Eannes de Azurara
King Affonso I. 1516
25(2)
Rui de Aguiar
The Land of Prester John. 1525
27(5)
Francisco Alvarez
The Western Sudan in the Sixteenth Century. 1526
32(5)
Leo Africanus
The East Coast of Africa at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. 1540
37(7)
Duarte Barbosa
The Jaga. 1568
44(9)
Andrew Battell
Paulo Diaz de Novais in Angola. 1571
53(2)
Filippo Pigafetta
Duarte Lopez
The Wazimba. 1590
55(8)
Joao dos Santos
Songhay and the Moroccan Invasion. 1591
63(11)
Abd-al-Rahman al-Sadi
Idris Alawma and the Kanem Wars. 1602
74(7)
Imam Ahmad ibn Fartuwa
Relations between the Kingdom of Congo and the Papacy. 1613
81(8)
Alvare II
Alvare III
From Tete to Kilwa. 1616
89(4)
Gaspar Bocarro
Portuguese Missionaries in Ethiopia. 1620
93(3)
Father Lobo
Of the Native Tribes of South Africa. 1652
96(11)
Jan van Riebeeck
Z. Wagenaar
Queen Anna Nzinga. 1654
107(2)
Giovanni Cavazzi
The Kingdom of the Monomotapa. 1666
109(4)
Manuel de Faria e Souza
The Conversion of the Monomotapa. 1652
113(2)
Antonio Suarez
Benin. 1680
115(6)
John Barbot
Justice and Warfare at Axim. 1700
121(7)
William Bosman
The Slaves Mutiny. 1730
128(7)
William Snelgrave
A Defense of the African Slave Trade. 1740
135(2)
Mercator Honestus
Sheik Adlan and the Black Horse Cavalry of Sennar. 1772
137(3)
James Bruce
The Boers. 1776
140(3)
Andrew Sparrman
Dahomey and Its Neighbors. 1793
143(5)
Archibald Dalzel
The Niger at Segu. 1796
148(3)
Mungo Park
The Kingdom of the Kazembe. 1799
151(10)
Father Pinto
Bonny. 1800
161(5)
Captain Hugh Crow
The Hijra and Holy War of Sheik Uthman dan Fodio. 1804
166(3)
Abd Allah ibn Muhammad
The Kazembe. 1806
169(3)
P. J. Baptista
The Case Against the Jihad. 1813
172(3)
Al-Kanami
Shendi. 1814
175(8)
John Lewis Burckhardt
Boer Meets Bantu. 1820
183(5)
Thomas Pringle
Bornu and Shaykh al-Kanami. 1823
188(8)
Major Dixon Denham
The Trans-Saharan Caravan. 1828
196(6)
Rene Caillie
Shaka. 1830
202(7)
Henry Francis Fynn
The Maravi. 1831
209(7)
A. C. P. Gamitto
The Great Trek. 1835
216(8)
Anna Elizabeth Steenkamp
Mzilikazi. 1840
224(4)
Robert Moffat
The Principles of Abolition. 1840
228(5)
Thomas Fowell Buxton
Slaving in Liberia. 1850
233(2)
Theodore Canot
Al-Hajj Bashir, Kukawa, and Timbuktu. 1852
235(7)
Heinrich Barth
Trade in Gabon. 1859
242(6)
Paul du Chaillu
The Prazeros. 1859
248(4)
Charles Livingstone
Unyamwezi and Buganda. 1862
252(5)
John Hanning Speke
King Munza. 1871
257(7)
George Schweinfurth
Bushman. 1873
264(6)
John Mackenzie
Kabaka Mutesa I. 1875
270(2)
Ernest Linant de Bellefonds
Rubber Collecting in the Congo. 1885
272(4)
Edgar Canisius
Kings of Kano. 1892
276(6)
The Kano Chronicle
The Ndebele Rebellion. 1896
282(3)
Ndansi Kumalo
The Crown Colony System in West Africa. 1897
285(5)
Mary Kingsley
Indirect Rule in Tropical Africa. 1900
290(8)
Lord Lugard
White Man's Country. 1903
298(3)
Lord Delamere
The Sayyid's Reply. 1904
301(11)
Mohammed Abdille Hasan
Records of Maji Maji
The Maji Maji Rebellion. 1905-1907
305(7)
Court Life in Buganda. 1910
312(8)
Sir Apolo Kagwa
The Devonshire White Paper
The Indians in Kenya. 1923
316(4)
At the League of Nations June 30, 1936
320(7)
Haile Selassie
Native Policy and Political Institutions in French Equatorial Africa. 1941
327(4)
Felix Eboue
Meeting at Nyeri July 26, 1952
331(8)
Jomo Kenyatta
The Principles of Apartheid. 1959
339(8)
M. D. C. de Wet Nel
Verwoerd's Tribalism. 1959
347(9)
Nelson Rolihlahle Mandela
Black Consciousness and the Quest for True Humanity. 1977
356(6)
Steve Biko
The Genesis of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), 1983
362(6)
John Garange de Mabior
Address to the ANC. 1985
368
Nelson Mandela

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