Table of Contents

Introduction John E. Flint; 1. Egypt and the Nile valley P. M. Holt; 2. Ethiopia and the Horn Sven Rubenson; 3. The Maghrib Douglas Johnson; 4. The nineteenth-century jihads in West Africa M. Hiskett; 5. Freed slave colonies in West Africa Christopher Fyfe; 6. West Africa in the anti-slave trade era J. F. Ade Ajayi, and B. O. Oloruntimehin; 7. The forest and the savanna of Central Africa David Birmingham; 8. East Africa: the expansion of commerce A. C. Unomah, and J. B. Webster; 9. The Nguni outburst J. D. Omer-Cooper; 10. Colonial South Africa and its frontiers J. D. Omer-Cooper; 11. Tradition and change in Madagascar, 1790–1870 Hubert Deschamps; 12. Africans overseas, 1790–1870 John E. Flint, and I. Geiss; 13. Changing European attitudes to Africa Robin Hallett; Bibliographical essays; Bibliography; Index.

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The period covered in this volume begins with the emergence of anti-slave trade attitudes in Europe, and ends on the eve of European colonial conquest.

Reviews

'The standard of scholarship sustained throughout this volume, and the impressive bibliographical apparatus which fills 94 pages, convincingly illustrate what has been achieved by historians of many nationalities, and notably by those who work, or have worked in African universities.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History