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Table of Contents of Documents from the African Past

Preface

1 Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. First Century C.E.

2 Trade in Ethiopia. 547

3 China’s Discovery of Africa. 863

4 The East African Coast. 1331

5 Mali. 1352

6 Tawat and the Western Sudan Trade. 1447

7 The Discovery of Guinea. 1435

8 King Affonso I. 1516

9 The Land of Prester John. 1525

10 The Western Sudan in the Sixteenth Century. 1526

11 The East Coast of Africa at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. 1540

12 The Jaga. 1568

13 Paulo Diaz de Novais in Angola. 1571

14 The Wazimba. 1590

15 Songhay and the Moroccan Invasion. 1591

16 Idris Alawma and the Kanem Wars. 1602

17 Relations between the Kingdom of Congo and the Papacy. 1613

18 From Tete to Kilwa. 1616

19 Portuguese Missionaries in Ethiopia. 1620

20 Of the Native Tribes of South Africa. 1652

21 Queen Anna Nzinga. 1654

22 The Kingdom of the Monomotapa. 1666

23 The Conversion of the Monomotapa. 1652

24 Benin. 1680

25 Justice and Warfare at Axim. 1700

26 The Slaves Mutiny. 1730

27 A Defense of the African Slave Trade. 1740

28 Sheik Adlan and the Black Horse Cavalry of Sennar. 1772

29 The Boers. 1776

30 Dahomey and Its Neighbors. 1793

31 The Niger at Segu. 1796

32 The Kingdom of the Kazembe. 1799

33 Bonny. 1800

34 The Hijra and Holy War of Sheik Uthman dan Fodio. 1804

35 The Kazembe. 1806

36 The Case Against the Jihad. 1813

37 Shendi. 1814

38 Boer Meets Bantu. 1820

39 Bornu and Shaykh al-Kanami. 1823

40 The Trans-Saharan Caravan. 1828

41 Shaka. 1830

42 The Maravi. 1831

43 The Great Trek. 1835

44 Mzilikazi. 1840

45 The Principles of Abolition. 1840

46 Slaving in Liberia. 1850

47 Al-Hajj Bashir, Kukawa, and Timbuktu. 1852

48 Trade in Gabon. 1859

49 The Prazeros. 1859

50 Unyamwezi and Buganda. 1862

51 King Munza. 1871

52 Bushman. 1873

53 Kabaka Mutesa I. 1875

54 Rubber Collecting in the Congo. 1885

55 Kings of Kano. 1892

56 The Ndebele Rebellion. 1896

57 The Crown Colony System in West Africa. 1897

58 Indirect Rule in Tropical Africa. 1900

59 White Man’s Country. 1903

60 The Sayyid’s Reply. 1904

61 The Maji Maji Rebellion. 1905-1907

62 Court Life in Buganda. 1910

63 The Indians in Kenya. 1923

64 At the League of Nations June 30, 1936

65 Native Policy and Political Institutions in French Equatorial Africa. 1941

66 Meeting at Nyeri July 26, 1952

67 The Principles of Apartheid. 1959

68 Verwoerd’s Tribalism. 1959

69 Black Consciousness and the Quest for True Humanity. 1977

70 The Genesis of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), 1983

71 Address to the ANC. 1985