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Into Africa : a journey through the ancient empires

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    Key Porter Books, 1997

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  • Author: De Villiers, Marq
    Contributor: Hirtle, Sheila
    Date:
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    1997
    Summary:

    Recounts a modern trip through Africa, discussing its history, people, languages, governments, cultures, art, music, and wildlife, along the way.

    Contents:
    • Monomotapa : Great Zimbabwe. The high hills of Chimanimani. The Makuni of Zambia. Monomotapa's heirs. "This deadly thing". The Luba-lunda and the Zairian pogroms. The crocodile man. Among the lions. Ngorongoro and Serengeti. Among the Maasai
    • The land of Zanj and the birth of the Swahili : The sharks of Mogadishu. Lamu and Shela. Mombasa. Zanzibar and mafia. Dar es Salaam and the Tanzanian Littoral. Kilwa Kisiwani, the royal city. Golden Sofala
    • Towards Azania : The view from Thaba Bosiu. Azania. Sobhuza's heirs. The Kalahari. The thirstland and the Skeleton Coast
    • Kongo : The ManiKongo kings and the dark queen of the Mbundu. The Congo River. Loango. Bangui. Gabon. Equatorial Guinea. São Tomé and Príncipe. Cameroon
    • The Gulf of Guinea : The rain forests of Cameroon. The little kingdoms. Ife, Oyo, and Benin. Dahomey. The Ashanti. The Ivory coast. Slavery's stepchildren: Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Sahel: the golden empires of the sun : Old Ghana. The kingdom of Mali. Songhai. Kanem-Bornu. The Tuareg and Timbuktu. The Fulani. The Hausa kingdoms. Colonial Sahel. The Dogon
    • The Maghreb and the Barbary Coast : The old Maghreb. Morocco. Algeria. Tunisia. Libya
    • The longest river : Egypt. Meroë and Kush. Axum and Ethiopia
    • The Great Rift : The Baganda kings. The mountains of the moon. Rwanda and Burundi. The Kenya Highlands. The world according to moi. Olduvai and Lucy's kin.
    Genre:
    Travel writing, History and geography
    Subject(s): Civilization | De Villiers, Marq | Manners and customs | Travel
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 1550138847, 9781550138849