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List of contents
Preface
Timeline of Historical Events
The Ancient and Precolonial PeriodAfrica: An Overview
The Prehistoric Past: The Evolution of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, 40,000 B.C.
The Agricultural Revolution, 5000 B.C.+
The Civilization of Ancient Egypt, 3100 B.C.+
The Iron Age and the Spread of Bantu Speakers, 730 B.C.+
The Rise of Kush and Aksum, 730 B.C.+
The Greeks and Romans in North Africa, 332 B.C.+
Ethiopia: The Emergence of a Christian Kingdom, 1250 A.D.+
The Spread of Islam, 622 A.D. Onward
Kingdoms of West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay, A.D. 1000-1600
The Rise of the Swahili City-States of East Africa, Tenth-Fourteenth Century A.D.
The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
The Organization of Societies, Fifteenth Century A.D. Onward
The Nineteenth-Century PeriodThe Outbreak of Islamic Jihad, 1804
Wars and Revolution Among the Yoruba, 1817-93
The Spread of Christianity, 1804 Onward
The Rise of Muhammad Ali of Egypt, 1811-47
The Mfecane: Shaka and the Zulu Kingdom, 1816-40
European Conquest and African Response, 1885-1900
The Twentieth-Century PeriodThe Colonial Experience, 1900-39
The Entrenchment of Apartheid in South Africa, 1948
Africa Drawn into the Second World War, 1940-45
The End of European Rule, 1951-90
Violence to Gain National Liberation, 1952-62
Confrontation with the Gains and Pains if Independence, 1958-70
The Formation of the Organization of African Unity, 1963
Coups, Counter Coups, and Military Regimes, 1963 Onward
Ufamaa and Policy Choices, 1967 Onward
The Creation of the Economic Community of West African States, 1975
Portuguese Colonies Attain Freedom, 1975
Cultural Revival and Cultural Inventory: The Second World Festival of African Arts and Culture, 1977
The Women's Decade, 1975-85
A Continent in Deep Crisis, 1980+
Environmental Challenges, 1980 Onward
African Refugees, 1980 Onward
Africa in World Politics in Transition, 1980s Onward
The Fall of Apartheid and the Advent of Nelson Mandela's Government, 1994-99
Index
About the author
Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of UNESCO Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South, Library of Congress. He is a member of the Scholars’ Council, Kluge Center, the Library of Congress. He has received over 30 lifetime career awards and 14 honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on Nigeria, including A History of Nigeria (1989), Nigerian Political Modernity and Postcolonial Predicaments (2016), Violence in Nigeria (1998), and Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria (1998).
TOYIN FALOLA is the Frances Higginbothom Nalle Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin. A leading historian of Nigeria and a distinguished Africanist, he serves on the editorial board of many journals, co-edits the Journal of African Economic History, and serves as series editor for Studies in African History and the Diaspora. His publications include many essays and books on Nigeria, including Decolonization and Development Planning (1996) and Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies (1998). He is currently working on a book entitled The African Intelligentsia.
