Table of Contents
Preface by Amadou-Mahtar M 'Bow, former Director-General ofUnesco
Description of the Project by B. A. Ogot, former President, International
Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa xii
Note on chronology
Members of the International Scientific Committee for the Drafting
of a General History of Africa
List and biographies of authors who have contributed to the main edition
General introduction
1 The development of African historiography
2 The place of history in African society
3 Recent trends in African historiography and their contribution to history in general
4 Sources and specific techniques used in African history: a general outline
5 Written sources before the fifteenth century
6 Written sources before the fifteenth century onwards
7 Oral tradition and its methodology
8 The living tradition
9 African archaeology and its techniques including dating
10 History and linguistics, and theories on the 'races' and history of Africa
11 Migrations and ethnic and linguistic differentiations
12 African linguistic classification and the language map of Africa
13 Historical geography: physical aspects
14 Historical geography: economic aspects
15 The interdisciplinary methods adopted in this study
16 Chronological framework: African pluvial and glacial epochs
17 Hominization: general problems
18 African fossil man
19 The prehistory of East Africa
20 The prehistory of Southern Africa
21 The prehistory of Central Africa
22 The prehistory of North Africa
23 The prehistory of the Sahara
24 The prehistory of West Africa
25 The prehistory of the Nile valley
26 African prehistoric art
27 The origins, development and expansion of agricultural techniques
28 Discovery and diffusion of metals and the development of
social systems until the fifth century before the Christian era
Conclusion:from nature in the raw to liberated humanity
Bibliography
Index
