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This text
offers in a single volume an introduction to classical African
history, primary in the period before 1800, with a focus on
the great ancient African civilizations. The author draws
upon the most recently available information on the history
of Africa, including theories of the earliest evolution of
humankind. The text then explores the beginnings of African
farming when the Sahara was still an open savannah with green
pastures and flowing rivers and moves the reader through the
ancient kingdoms of Nubia, Meroe, Axum, the medieval Sudanic
empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, and on to the development
and spread of Islam throughout southern Africa, east Africa,
the Kongo and the forest states. It concludes with an exploration
of the transatlantic slave trade.
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