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Author: Mary Quigley Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books ISBN: 9781588104250 Category : Africa, West Languages : en Pages : 0
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Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
Author: Mary Quigley Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books ISBN: 9781588104250 Category : Africa, West Languages : en Pages : 0
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Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
Author: Daryll Forde Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 042995851X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 300
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Originally published in 1967 this volume presents studies of 10 West African kingdoms which have played an important part in the economic, political and cultural life of the region. Ranging geographically from the kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria to the Wolof kingdom of Kayor in Senegal, they inlcude the Oyo Yoruba, Dahomey, Hausa, Maradi, Kom in West Cameroon, the Mossi, Ashanti and Gonja and the Mende chiefdoms of Sierra Leone. Each outlines the historical origins and development of the kingdom and analyses its organization in the nineteenth century. It includes accounts of the economic basis and resources of the state and the significance of tribute and trade, of the social categories among its population, the administrarive machinery and communnications, the judicial and military organization and external relations. It also considers the importance of the ideology and rituals of kingship.
Author: Michael Gomez Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691196826 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 520
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In a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam's growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.
Author: John Haywood Publisher: Capstone Classroom ISBN: 9781410932969 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 68
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Presents a tour of West African kingdoms between 1200 and 1600, discussing facts about religion, war, slavery, diet, houses, politics, culture, transportation, crime, and illness.
Author: Mary Quigley
Author: Mary Quigley
Author: Daryll Forde
Author: Dierk Lange
Author: Katherine E. Reece
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