General History of Africa, V: Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

Examines Africa between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a time of new states, shifting trade and outside pressure. Themes include the Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, Ottoman and Moroccan power in the north, the end of Songhay, the rise of new kingdoms in West and Central Africa, change along the East African coast and in Madagascar, and the societies of southern Africa.

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