This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews. It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history.
Author(s): Toyin Falola, Mohammed Bashir Salau
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 450
City: Oldenburg
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Human Origins, Early Societies and Migration to 1000 CE
Chapter 2 Africa in the Mediterranean World
Chapter 3 Tran-Saharan Networks to 1800
Chapter 4 Africa and the Indian Ocean World to 1800
Chapter 5 Africa and the Atlantic World, 1400–1860
Chapter 6 Africa and Europe in the Nineteenth Century: The “Legitimate Trade” Era and Christian Missionaries
Chapter 7 The European Conquest of Africa, 1879–1914
Chapter 8 Impact of African Colonial Experience 1914– 1940
Chapter 9 Africa and the World Wars
Chapter 10 Nationalism and Decolonization in Africa, 1918–1975
Chapter 11 South African Apartheid and Resistance: A Global History
Chapter 12 The Geopolitics and Geo-economics of Apartheid South Africa and the Cold War: A Global History
Chapter 13 Diseases and Medicines in African History
Chapter 14 Africa and the Globalization of Religion in the Contemporary Era
Chapter 15 Africa and the Cold War
Chapter 16 Africa and the USA
Chapter 17 Africa and China
Chapter 18 Foreign Aid to Africa Since 1940
Chapter 19 Globalization, African Popular Culture and Hip Hop: An Embedded History
Chapter 20 Contemporary Globalization and Africa
Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
