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The History of Islam in Africa is the first book to approach the role of Islam in Africa on a continent-wide basis. Until now more emphasis has been put on Islam in West Africa than any other region. The 24 contributors to the book, who all have impeccable credentials, have focused on the historical, cultural, and environmental factors which influenced diverse, local forms of Islam. This diversity has produced widely varied religious meanings, beliefs, and practices that have molded African communities which at the same time adapted Islam to its new settings.
In the fourteen centuries since the introduction of Islam, Muslims have played important roles in Africa's development. Muslims were important in the process of state-building, in creating commercial networks between parts of the continent, in introducing literacy (which saw Muslim become scribes in charge of state records), as well as in exchanges of inter-state diplomacy within Africa and beyond.
The book is divided into four sections: Gateways to Africa (Egypt and the Maghrib from the north and the Indian Ocean from the east), West Africa and the Sudan, Eastern and Southern Africa, and General Themes. The latter section includes Islamic law, Muslim women in African history, Islamic education, Sufi brotherhoods, and Islamic art, literature and music.
The contributors' writing style - no doubt polished by the two editors - has produced a highly readable book instead of a dry, academic tome destined to gather dust. And it's fortunately been printed with generous margins as it'll soon be full of personal annotations. As for depth of information, here's an example. Rather than the usual cursory mention of the person regarded as the founder of Islam in South Africa, Shaykh Yusuf, there's a satisfying outline of his life: where and when he was born, his education, the reasons for his exile from Batavia by the Dutch, the name of the ship he sailed on, who sailed with him, where he was interned, the reaction by the authorities to his death, and where his religious writings are currently housed.
Anyone with an interest in getting a balanced view of African history will find this book fascinating. But be warned, it's some 600 pages long, so your friends may not hear from you for a while
On the advice of two grand masters of paleoanthropology, Don Johanson and Richard Leakey, Lee Berger decided that South Africa was the place to go to study the origins of humankind. It was a chance to work with actual fossils since both Ethiopia and Kenya were already bursting with paleontologists.
The house, Shiwa Ngandu, was built by Stewart Gore-Browne, a British colonial who came to what was then Northern Rhodesia to fulfil a dream, and ended up playing a major role in the territory's peaceful transition to independence as the nation of Zambia.
Need to do something to impress the wealthy stepfather of your would-be bride? Being elected the younger-ever member (22) of the Alpine Club and suvived the Matabele War not enough? How about spending three years on a quest to be the first man to traverse the African continent from south to north? Fortunately for Grogan, his beloved Gertrude waited for him. Given his later infidelities -- he ended up running three separate families -- one has to wonder if she regretted doing so.
The personal accounts and documented history presented in this book give an excellent insight into the everyday life, past and present, of this famous South African township.
The Islamic faith and Muslims have played a crucial role in the development of Africa, not only in North Africa and West Africa where it is still the dominant religion, but also in East Africa, where its dominance decreases as one moves south, and in Southern Africa, where it was introduced through slaves and political exiles and is most prominent today in the cities of Durban and Cape Town
An introduction to the history of slavery in Africa which examines how indigenous practices of slavery developed under the influence of international trade. The book is not limited to a study of the trans-Atlantic slave trade but considers the impact of all forms of slavery on the social, economic, and political development of the continent.
A History of the African People by Robert W. July, Professor Emeritus, Hunter College and Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Waveland Press, Inc: Prospect Heights, Illinois, 1992
Review
A very comprehensive book about Africa and the people of African descent from "The Beginnings of African History," "The Genesis of Humankind in Africa," "Independent Africa," to "African Cultural Independence--Ideals and Complexities," but particularly Part One, "Ancient Africa," and "The Genesis of Humankind in Africa." I found it a very helpful source in the writing and pending publication of my world history textbook, "One Humanity - One Race - The African Heritage in Human Biological and Cultural History" by myself, Harold L. Carter
Most of the following ancient Africans became famous through contact with ancient Rome. The history of Rome's contact with ancient Africa begins before the period when history is considered reliable. It goes back to the days when the legendary founder of the Roman race, Aeneas, stayed with Dido in Carthage. At the other end of ancient history, more than a thousand years later, when the Vandals attacked northern Africa, the great Christian theologian Augustus lived there.
In addition to the Africans important because they were involved in Roman history found below, there were thousands of years of pharaohs and dynasties of ancient Egypt. whose number, of course, includes the famous Cleopatra.
Dido
Aeneas and Dido
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Dido was the legendary queen of Carthage (in northern Africa) who carved out a substantial niche along the southern Mediterranean coastline for her people -- emigrants from Phoenicia -- to live in, by outsmarting the local king. Later, she entertained the Trojan prince Aeneas who went on to become the pride of Rome, Italy, but not before he had created lasting enmity with the north African kingdom by abandoning the love-struck Dido.
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