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vi, 152 pages : 21 cm Includes bibliographical references (page 152) Ancient Ghana and the customs of its inhabitants -- Ibn Battuta in the negrolands -- The founding of Timbuktu -- Timbuktu in 1526 -- The coming of Islam to Kano -- Kanem in the tenth century -- Bornu in 1823 -- The coming of brass-casting to Benin -- Funeral of a Yoruba king -- A Yoruba pantomime -- The eighteenth-century expansion of Dahomey, and the origin of the women's army -- The annual "king's customs" of Dahomey -- Reception of an English mission in Ashanti in 1817 -- Observations on African slavery -- The Christian kingdoms of the upper Nile -- Reception of a Portuguese Embassy at the Ethiopian Court in 1520 -- The city of Aksum in the sixteenth century -- Rites and customs of the Ethiopian crown -- An Ethiopian love feast -- Kabaka Juko I and Prince Kayemba of Buganda -- A naval battle on Lake Victoria in 1875 -- The village life of East Africa -- Portrait of the gentle King Rumanika of Karagwe -- The fattened princesses of Karagwe -- Heroic poetry of Ankole -- Dynastic poetry of Rwanda -- The court of the Christian kingdom of Congo in the sixteenth century -- The Jagas -- The officers of state of Lunda -

Author

Roland Anthony Oliver; Caroline Oliver

Publisher

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Published

1965

Language

EN

ISBN

9780130184245