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In Praise of the Ancestors
Apart from collective memories of lived experiences, much of the modern world’s historical sense comes from written sources stored in the archives of the world, and some scholars in the not-so-distant past have described unlettered civilizations as “peoples without history.” In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge about three Native groups. Susan Elizabeth Ramírez reevaluates three case studies of oral traditions using positional inheritance—a system in which names and titles are inherited from one generation by another and thereby contribute to the formation of collective memories and a gr...
Wealth from the Rocks
This study focuses on the study of metallurgy in pre-colonial Zambia to 1890. A general review of the literature on metallurgy in pre-colonial Zambia reveals that during the period our study (up to 1890), three metals were mined. Iron production was a widespread, important and significant phenomenon, responsible for producing utility toolshoes, axe, knives, weapons, spears, arrow heads and broad knives, and regalia for the political and religious office holderscopper, which was confine to few areas; and gold to even fewer areas. Metallurgy was an important economic activity in which all ethnic groups participated in different levels of intensity. From iron ore which was smelted in elaborate ...
A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races
Part of the Cambridge Historical Series, this 1913 edition extensively changes the 1899 original, and expresses Sir Harry Johnston's (1858-1927) perspective on African colonization.
Travels, Researches and Missionary Labours During an Eighteen Years' Residence in Eastern Africa
An important work for the nineteenth century history of East Africa. It contains a new introduction with a biographical sketch of Krapf.
A History of West Central Africa to 1850
An accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region.
