Badawi’s encyclopedic survey of African history is an important installment in the current wave of scholarship on the deep histories of African societies.

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a ... the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and ...

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative ... debut introduces readers to a world where gods live among ordinary ...

In 1930 for example, Charles Seligman (1873-1940), an English ethnologist who wrote a book titled 'The Races ... was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in ...