Author: Niane, D.T.; editor:
Title: General History of Africa IV: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century
Description: London / Berkeley, Heinemann / Univ. California, (1984). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xxvii,751 pp. Textual maps & photos.. Minor rubbing. Rubberstamp to flyleaf. Light page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 27 papers. Includes: O. Saidi "The Spread of Civilization in th Maghrib & Its Impact on Western Civilization"; I. Hrbek "The Disintegration of Political Unity in the Maghrib"; R. Idris "Society in the Maghrib After the Disappearance of the Almohads"; D.T. Niane "Mali & the Second Mandingo Expansion"; M. Ly-Tall "The Decline of the Mali Empire"; S.M. Cissoko "The Songhay from the 12th to the 16th Century"; M. Izard " The Peoples & Kingdoms of the Niger Bend & the Volta Basin from the 12th to the 16th Century"; D. Langew "The Kingdoms & Peoples of Chad"; M. Adamu "The Hausa & their Neighbours in the Central Sudan"; Y. Person "The Coastal Peoples: From Casamance to the Ivory Coast Lagoons"; P. Kipre " From the Ivory Coast Lagoons to the Volta"; A.F.C. Ryder "From the Volta to Cameroon"; J.C. Garcin "Egypt & the Muslim World"; L. Kropacek "Nubia from the Late 12th Century to the Funj Conquest in the Early 15th Century";T. Tamrat "The Horn of Africa: The Solomonids in Ethiopia & the States of the Horn of Africa"; V.V. Matveiv "The Development of Swahili Civilization"; C. Ehret "Between the Coast & the Great Lakes"; B.A. Ogot "The Great Lakes Region"; B.M. Fagan "The Zambezi & Limpopo Basins: 1100-1500"; J. Vansina "Equatorial Africa & Angola: Migrations & the Emergence of the First States"; L.D. Ngcongco "Southern Africa: Its Peoples & Social Structures"; F. Esoavelomandroso "Madagascar & the Neighbouring Islands from the 12th to the 16th Centuries"; D.T. Niane "Relationships & Exchanges among the Different Regions"; J. Devisse "Africa in Inter-

Keywords: African Historiography, Medieval Africa, History, Historical, Ethnography, Ethnology, Ethnohistory, ,