Great Kingdoms of Africa
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Product details:
- Publisher Thames & Hudson
- Date of Publication 16 March 2023
- ISBN 9780500252529
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 13x62x96 mm
- Weight 700 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 59 illustrations, 22 in colour 445
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An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.
From the ancient Nile Valley to the savannas ofmedieval West Africa, the highlands of Ethiopia andon to the forests, lakes and grasslands to the south,African civilizations have given rise to some of theworlds most impressive kingdoms. Yet Africas historyis often little known beyond the devastation wroughtby the slave trade and European colonial rule. In thisgroundbreaking new book, nine leading historians ofAfrica take a fresh look at these great kingdoms andempires over five thousand years of recorded history.
How was kingship forged in Africa and how did itoperate? Was dynastic power maintained by consentor by coercion? Did kings and queens display andproject that power for all to see, or did they hide itaway, as beneath the fringed crowns that concealedthe faces of sacred Yoruba rulers? In what ways haveAfrican peoples themselves recorded, celebrated andcritiqued the deeds of their kings? Great Kingdoms ofAfrica explores some of the most important questionsin the continents deep past.
As elsewhere in the world, absolute monarchy inAfrica has been on the wane in the modern era. Yetkingship continues to thrive within many present-dayAfrican nations, preserving deep-rooted ideas aboutculture, identity and sacred power. Presenting excitingdevelopments in the understanding of how states andsocieties have interacted with each other across time,this book shows how powerful and sophisticatedkingdoms have shaped the course of African history and continue to do so in the present day.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Kings, Kingship and Kingdoms in African History
John Parker
1. Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Kings of Floods and Kings of Rain
David Wengrow
2. The Sudanic Empires: The Gold, the Arts, the River
Rahmane Idrissa
3. The Solomonic Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia
Habtamu Tegegne and Wendy Laura Belcher
4. The Yoruba and Benin Kingdoms
Olatunji Ojo
5. The Kongo Kingdom
Cécile Fromont
6. Buganda
John Parker
7. From Hausa Kingdoms to the Sokoto Caliphate
Muhammadu Mustapha Gwadabe
8. The Akan Forest Kingdom of Asante
John Parker
9. The Zulu Kingdom
Wayne Dooling
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