An edition of Old Africa rediscovered
(1959)
Old Africa rediscovered
by Basil Davidson, Basil Davidson, and Basil Davidson
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This book is about Africa and Africans, south of the Sahara Desert, during the fifteen hundred years or so before the colonial period began.
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Antiquities, Civilization, History, Prehistoric peoples, Civilisation, Histoire, CivilizaciónPlaces
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Afrique noireTimes
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Table of Contents
One: The peopling of ancient Africa
The possibility of African history
Lines of migration
The desert barrier
Giants and heroes
Two: The mystery of Meroe
Lords of the Southern Frontier
Egypt, Libya, Kush
Meroe
The triumph of Kush
An Athens in Africa?
Three: Kingdoms of the Old Sudan
Early West Africa: Discoveries at Nok
From Kush to Carthage
The Coming of iron
"Business with the King of Timbuktu"
Ghana
Mali
Songhay
The Sao and Kanem
In Darfur
Eclipse and survival
Four: Between the Niger and the Congo
Beyond the Savannah
The Great distortion
Benin
Unity in diversity
Five: To the southward
The Southern Zanj
Discoveries at Kalambo
The foundations of Southern Civilization
Six: Traders of the Indian Ocean
Sheba's Cities
Sailing down Africa
The nature of the trade
China and Africa
Seven: Fair Cities of stone
A forgotten Civilization
Arab or African?
Steps to the interior
Eight: After Axum
The Greatness of Ethiopia
Engaruka
The Old Roads of Kenya
Azanian history
Who were the Azanians?
Nine: The builders of the south
"An exceeding great country"
Zimbabwe
King Solomon's mines?
Verdict from the evidence
Medieval Rhodesia
The Golden burials of Mapungubwe
In the Old Transvaal
Niekerk and Inyanga: Forts and terraces
Ten: The reality behind the ruins
Some points of comparison
A period of greatness
The bud and the flower
What is now required
Eleven: Decline and fall
The fabric of society
Barbarians at the Gate
The Gate flung Open
Twelve: History begins anew.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277).
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