A Evolução da historiografia da Africa

2020-01-31 · 1 citations

Reflections on the Early History of the Mossi-Dagomba Group of States

2018-09-03 · 9 citations

The history of the Mossi-Dagomba states lying astride the modern border between Ghana and the Volta Republic has for the most part been looked at from the north, from the viewpoint of Mossi tradition. The seventeenth-century Timbuctu Tarikhs record the sack of Timbuctu by the Mossi in a.d. 1333, a raid against Benka c. 1433–4, and a great raid during 1477–83 which is said to have reached as far as Walata. The Tarikhs afford clear evidence that with the re-establishment of imperial power in the middle Niger valley under the Songhai kings Sonni Ali (c. 1465–92) and Askia Muhammad (1493–1528), the later raids provoked serious retaliation. It seems likely that this change in the balance of power in the Niger valley may have pushed Mossi-Dagomba southwards and have inclined them to seek profit from the levying of tribute on the kinship groups of the upper Volta basin rather than from raiding northwards.

Barbot on Guinea: The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa, I678-I7I2,

2016-01-01

In the early days of the J. Afr. Hist., this reviewer wrote uncharitably about publishers who would cheerfully produce so-called new editions of the great classical works of Africana with little or nothing in the way of editorial matter to guide readers through their often difficult and sometimes even misleading texts.' It is now beginning to look as though those days are passing. Indeed, even in the I960s as he was writing, the way forward was being shown within the Memdrias series of the Centro de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga in Lisbon; one might in particular recall the work of the late Admiral A. Teixeira da Mota.2 If perhaps in the wider world too little notice was taken of this initiative, it could well have been a factor leading to the establishment of the Union Academique Internationale's Fontes Historiae Africanae series, and to the British Academy's sponsorship of those of its volumes published in the United Kingdom. Among these, Albert van Dantzig and Adam Jones's annotated English translation of Pieter de Marees's I602 description of the Gold Coast is a quite excellent example of what can be achieved in relation to West Africa.3 But now, with this edition of Jean Barbot's writings, the Hakluyt Society's series of modern editions of the original accounts of notable voyages and travels, a series which has upheld wholly laudable standards of scholarship for the best part of I 50 years, has returned to a field which at least so far as concerns West Africa it has rather neglected since the halcyon years I937-42, when it issued editions of Pacheco's Esmeraldo by George Kimble and of Ca' Da Mosto's Voyages by G. R. Crone, and John Blake's selection of documents illustrating the earliest European contacts wvith Guinea.' Professor Hair, the chief editor of the Hakluyt Society's two new volumes, was long a collaborator with Teixeira da Mota,5 and it must now be something like twenty years ago that he began to argue the need for a full scholarly edition of the

A History of Africa

2013-10-23 · 4 citations

Guide to original sources for precolonial western Africa : an updated and expanded supplement to Fage (1994)

Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2006-01-01

HIA volume 30 Cover and Front matter

History in Africa · 2003-01-01

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HIA volume 26 Cover and Front matter

History in Africa · 1999-01-01 · 1 citations

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INTRODUCING AFRICA <i>Africa</i>. Edited by P<scp>HYLLIS</scp> M. M<scp>ARTIN</scp> and P<scp>ATRICK</scp> O'M<scp>EARA</scp>. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, and London, James Currey, 3rd edn., 1995. Pp. xx + 448; £14.95, paperback (<scp>ISBN</scp> 0-85255-230-0).

The Journal of African History · 1997-03-01

The first edition of Phyllis Martin's and Patrick O'Meara's collection under the simple title Africa appeared twenty years ago to meet the need which its editors, who teach in the African Studies Program at Indiana University, had felt for a multi-disciplinary introduction to the subject for undergraduates embarking for the first time on work relating to the continent. It has twenty-one chapters, each of which is written by an author – sometimes a pair of authors – who has lived and worked in Africa, some of whom have international reputations in their particular disciplines. These are arranged in four sections.