General History of Africa, VI: Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s

Looks at the nineteenth century up to the 1880s, stressing that Africans were shaping their own history before the European partition. It covers the end of the Atlantic slave trade, new commerce, Islamic reform movements in West Africa, political change in southern Africa, reforms in Egypt and Ethiopia, and growing European interest in the continent.

Summary written by CCAF for this library; not taken from the book.