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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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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.

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