General History of Africa, III: Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century

Follows Africa from the seventh to the eleventh century: the spread of Islam into North Africa and beyond, the growth of trade routes across the Sahara and the Indian Ocean, early states of the West African savanna, Christian Nubia and Ethiopia, and the movements and societies of peoples in central, eastern and southern Africa.

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