General History of Africa/Volume V/Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century/Contents

UNESCO — General History of Africa
Volume V
Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

List of Figures

1. Africa: the main points of European trade contact during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
2. Political entities of the Sahel between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries
3. African trade routes in the sixteenth century
4. Political areas from the Sahara to the equator in the seventeenth century
5. Atlantic commerce in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
6. Sources of the Atlantic slave trade from Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
7. The West African middle belt
8. The Americas and Africa
9. Africa, Europe and Asia
10. Lower Egypt (al-Delta)
11. Middle and Upper Egypt (al-Sa’id)
12. Trade routes of the Sudan
13. Kingdoms and sultanates of the Sudan
14. Peoples of the Sudan
15. Morocco in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
16. The stages of Don Sebastian’s progress towards the site of the ‘Battle of the Three Kings’ at Wādii al-Makhāzin, 30 July to 4 August 1578
17. The empire of Ahmad al-Mansūr, ‘the Golden” (1578-1603)
18. The principalities of northern Morocco in the early seventeenth century
19. Algeria, Tunisia and Libya in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
20. Senegambia in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
21. Trans-Saharan routes in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
22. The Timbuktu region
23. The Niger-Volta region in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
24. Major population groups of West Africa
25. Migratory movements of the peoples of West Africa, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries
26. The main states of West Africa, pre-sixteenth century
27. The main states of West Africa in the seventeenth century
28. The Akan, Ga and Ewe peoples
29. Principal trade routes of the Bandama-Volta-Mono basins
30. Re-drawing of a 1629 map of the Gold Coast
31. States of the Lower Guinea coast, 1700
32. States of the Lower Guinea coast, 1750
33. The Niger Delta area and Cameroon in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
34. The Central Sudan and North Africa in 1600
35. Hausaland, pre-1800
36. Hausa states in the eighteenth century
37. Trade routes between Hausaland and the Volta basin
38. Diagram showing the main trade and caravan links in the Sahara and west and central Sudan, c. 1800
39. Borno, Kanem and their immediate neighbours in the eighteenth century
40. Plan of Kukawa, the nineteenth-century capital of Borno, built in a double form of the traditional Kanuri design
41. Borno’s links with North Africa and the Nile valley in the eighteenth century
42. Population migrations in the Uele-Ubangi regions
43. Peoples and spheres of influence along the Congo-Zaire axis
44. Topography and natural resources of Kongo
45. Kongo and its neighbours in the sixteenth century
46. Kingdoms and trade of the Kongo region in the seventeenth century, with inset map of Ndongo
47. Shipping routes to Central Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
48. The slave trade in Central Africa in the eighteenth century
49. West Central Africa in the eighteenth century
50. The states in Shaba before 1700
51. The Luba kingdom in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
52. The Lunda empire in the eighteenth century
53. Peoples of the Northern Zambezi region in the eighteenth century
54. Pre-dynastic groups in Northern Zimbabwe
55. The Maravi expansion, c. 1650
56. Ivory trade routes in East-Central Africa in the eighteenth century
57. Central and south-eastern Africa during the period of the Mutapa and Torwa states
58. The prazos of the lower Zambezi valley
59. The Rozvi empire
60. The main feiras in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
61. Southern Africa in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
62. The Ethiopian empire and its dependencies, c. 1550
63. South-eastern Ethiopia, c. 1500
64. Oromo migrations in the sixteenth century
65. Christianity in north-eastern Africa, c. 1700
66. The western Indian Ocean basin
67. The East African coast
68. The Nyarubanga and the fragmentation of the Luo, c. 1570-1720
69. The southern Great Lakes region at the end of the seventeenth century
70. Ethnic groups of Kenya and Tanzania
71. Ethnic groups of Madagascar

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