Foundations Of An African Civilisation
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Foundations of an African Civilization
Author | : D. W. Phillipson |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781847010889 |
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"Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. This book seeks to apply a common methodology, utilising archaeology, art-history, written documents and oral tradition from a wide variety of sources; the result is a far greater emphasis on continuity than previous studies have revealed. It is thus a major re-interpretation of a key development in Ethiopia's past, while raising and discussing methodological issues of the relationship between archaeology and other historical disciplines; these issues, which have theoretical significance extending far beyond Ethiopia, are discussed in full. The last millennium BC is seen as a time when northern Ethiopia and parts of Eritrea were inhabited by farming peoples whose ancestry may be traced far back into the local 'Late Stone Age'. Colonisation from southern Arabia, to which defining importance has been attached by earlier researchers, is now seen to have been brief in duration and small in scale, its effects largely restricted to ľite sections of the community. Re-consideration of inscriptions shows the need to abandon the established belief in a single 'Pre-Aksumite' state. New evidence for the rise of Aksum during the last centuries BC is critically evaluated. Finally, new chronological precision is provided for the decline of Aksum and the transfer of centralised political authority to more southerly regions. A new study of the ancient churches - both built and rock-hewn - which survive from this poorly-understood period emphasises once again a strong degree of continuity across periods that were previously regarded as distinct."--Publisher's website.
Foundations of Civilization in Tropical Africa
Author | : Bassey W. Andah,Alex Ikechukwu Okpoko |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | : OCLC:22414083 |
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Introduction to African Civilizations
Author | : John G. Jackson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105005297135 |
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Historical overview of the role of African cultures in world history.
The Foundations of africanit Or N gritude and arabit
Author | : Léopold Sédar Senghor |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106009067742 |
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Black Man of the Nile and His Family
Author | : Yosef Ben-Jochannan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : OCLC:40195286 |
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Introduction to the History of African Civilization
Author | : C. Magbaily Fyle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 0761814566 |
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Introduction to the History of African Civilization
Author | : C. Magbaily Fyle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : IND:30000046087031 |
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Introduction to the History of African Civilization Precolonial Africa
Author | : C. Magbaily Fyle |
Publsiher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0761814566 |
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Introduction to the History of African Civilization explores the major issues dominating African Civilization from the earliest recorded period to the eve of colonial conquest of the continent. C. Magbaily Fyle begins with a discussion of the myths and prejudices underlying most analyses of African issues, and moves into a discussion of the origin of humanity; the similarities between the classical Nile valley civilizations of Egypt, Nubia, Kush, and Axum; and the spread of Islam through African societies. He portrays the systems of precolonial government and society, including the role of women in governance, as well as traditional trade and agricultural patterns. Fyle provides a new perspective on the Islamic Jihads, shifting focus from Sokoto and Macina to the Senegambia and the Upper Guinea region, and a revised interpretation of the Atlantic slave trade, which includes the importance of African objectors to this process. He also discusses important cultural features such as the traditional African food, architecture, and typical structures of towns.