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Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores.

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ISBN-13:	9780316174312
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	11/28/1988
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	366
Sales rank:	507,607
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

	Preface to This Edition	vii
	Introduction: The Rediscovery of Africa	xiii
1	The Peopling of Ancient Africa	1
1	The Possibility of African History	3
2	Lines of Migration	7
3	The Desert Barrier	12
4	Giants and Heroes	16
2	The Mystery of Meroe	23
1	Lords of the Southern Frontier	25
2	Egypt, Libya, Kush	34
3	Meroe	36
4	The Triumph of Kush	40
5	An Athens in Africa?	47
3	Kingdoms of the Old Sudan	51
1	Early West Africa: Discoveries at Nok	53
2	From Kush and Carthage	59
3	The Coming of Iron	64
4	"Business with the King of Timbuktu"	71
5	Ghana	81
6	Mali	90
7	Songhay	98
8	The Sao and Kanem	104
9	In Darfur	108
10	Eclipse and Survival	117
4	Between the Niger and the Congo	125
1	Beyond the Savannah	127
2	The Great Distortion	130
3	Benin	139
4	Unity in Diversity	143
5	To the Southward	149
1	The Southern Zanj	151
2	Discoveries at Kalambo	159
3	The Foundations of Southern Civilization	163
6	Traders of the Indian Ocean	169
1	Sheba's Cities	171
2	Sailing Down Africa	174
3	The Nature of the Trade	178
4	China and Africa	181
7	Fair Cities of Stone	193
1	A Forgotten Civilization	195
2	Arab or African?	202
3	Steps to the Interior	211
8	After Axum	213
1	The Greatness of Ethiopia	215
2	Engaruka	224
3	The Distant Past of East Africa	228
4	Inland History	231
5	Who Were the "Azanians"?	233
9	The Builders of the South	241
1	"An Exceeding Great Country"	243
2	Zimbabwe	246
3	King Solomon's Mines?	250
4	Verdict from the Evidence	254
5	Medieval Rhodesia	259
6	The Golden Burials of Mapungubwe	264
7	In the Old Transvaal	269
8	Niekerk and Inyanga: Forts and Terraces	274
10	The Reality Behind the Ruins	285
1	Some Points of Comparison	287
2	A Period of Greatness	293
3	The Bud and the Flower	299
4	What Is Now Required	307
11	Decline and Fall	313
1	The Fabric of Society	315
2	Nomads at the Gate	321
3	The Gate Flung Open	324
12	History Begins Anew	333
	General Bibliography	339
	Index	359

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Basil Davidson is the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa and certainly the best trusted in Africa itself. - Roland Oliver in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Davidson is the often-overlooked fourth man in the group that includes his contemporaries and fellow historians, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. Thompson (a close friend of Davidson for many years). These men's committed, left-wing approach to writing history opened up the stuffy, chauvinist world of British professional historians and reached a popular audience far beyond academia. But whereas the others wrote about the British or European past, Davidson studied Africa and put his political energies into the struggle for Third World liberation. - Michael Bygrave in THE GUARDIAN

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