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Author : Fiona MacDonald,Gerald Wood
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531153606
A tour of Benin City, a West African town and capital of the Edo Empire, located in present-day Nigeria.
Author : Fiona Macdonald,David Salariya
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0749627611
Suitable for National Curriculum Key Stage 2, a practical guide in the METROPOLIS series which explores what life was like in an ancient African town. Includes information on where to stay, what to eat and drink, local customs and useful phrases. With colour illustrations (many of which are in cross section) by Gerald Wood.
Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531144801
A tour of Benin City, a West African town and capital of the Edo Empire, located in present-day Nigeria.
Author : Fiona MacDonald
Publisher : Spectacular Visual Guides
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1908973668
Take an incredible tour through an African Town, exploring its relevance to the people who built it and the lives that they lead. Stunning cut-away illustrations and a clear, concise writing style help lead the reader through the often complex social and historical context
Author : Margaret Shinnie
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015000017286
Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139459556
This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.
Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521527929
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Author : Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126885479
Cities have existed in sub-Saharan Africa since antiquity. But only now are historians and archaeologists rediscovering their rich heritage: the ancient ruins of Great Zimbabwe and Congo, the harbor cities at the Indian Ocean, the capitals of the Bantu Kingdoms, the Atlantic cities from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and the urban revolutions in the 19th century. Mercantile cities opened Africa to the world, Islamic cities became centers of scholarship and the trans-Saharan trade, Creole cities appeared after the first contact with Europeans, and Bantu cities of the hinterland reacted against them. The author has gone through vast numbers of archival records and conducted independent field research to analyze and describe the rich history of African cities even long before imperial colonization began, and she continues her story until the time of urban reorganization during industrialization. The result is a colorful panorama of urban lifestyles including unique examples of architecture, and lasting traditions of ethnic, cultural, religious, and commercial forms of co-existence.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488971930
Author : Marq De Villiers,Sheila Hirtle
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0753804603
A brilliant picture of a rich, exotic, complex and fascinating continent in the style of Bruce Chatwin. Verbal snapshots, images, anecdotes, legends, tales, gossip, illustrations, photographs, art and maps lend insight and depth to this multi-layered portrait of a continent. Into Africa uses the ancient empires and trading patterns of prehistory as the primary framework, to explain how Africa was and is today. The book does not ignore the calamities, the collapse of civil authority, the wars, the famines, the human misery, the environmental degradation. But it does record the triumphs, small and large. More important, Into Africa goes beyond politics and tourism, into history and legend, art and culture, both popular and profound.
Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488971930
Author : Thomas Huffmann
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868144082
An illustrated book about a 1000 year old civilization Between AD 900 and 1300, the Shashe-Limpopo basin in Limpopo Province witnessed the development of an ancient civilization. Like civilizations everywhere, it consisted of a complex social organization supported by intensive agriculture and long-distance trade. The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, as it is now known, was the forerunner of the famous town of Great Zimbabwe, situated about 200 kilometers to the north, and its cultural connection to Great Zimbabwe and the Venda people allows archaeologists to reconstruct its evolution. This generously illustrated book tells the story of an African civilization that began more than 1000 years ago. It is the first in a series of accessible books written by specialists for visitors to South Africa's World Heritage Sites.
Author : Steven J. Salm,Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1580463142
This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa. The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration, globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations, politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban historiography, it also offers an-encompassing and up-to-date study of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban history and culture throughout the world. The opportunities provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new potential avenues of research. This book explores some of those avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build. Contributors: Maurice NyamangaAmutabi, Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Mark Dike DeLancey, Thomas Ngomba Ekali, Omar A. Eno, Doug T. Feremenga, Laurent Fourchard, James Genova, Fatima Muller-Friedman, Godwin R. Murunga, Kefa M. Otiso, Michael Ralph, Jeremy Rich, Eric Ross, Corinne Sandwith, Wessel Visser. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin; Steven J.Salm is Assistant Professor of History, Xavier University of Louisiana.
Author : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802484
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Author : John G. Jackson
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This modern classic is organized as follows: Introductory Survey Survey of Pre-Historic Man Ethiopia at the Crossroads The Hoare-Laval Plan Arab-Moorish Civilization and Culture South Africa West Africa Recent Tendencies Brief Statement of Courses in Schools Today Groundwork for Teachers That Word “Negro” — (negro) Early Traces in the Ancient East Summary of Native States Liberia and Sierra Leone International Relations Africans in Latin America Africans in Oceania African Art Africans in the United States Summary and Conclusion General Bibliography