| Description |
400 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Maps on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [378]-386) and index. |
| Contents |
Monomotapa : Great Zimbabwe. The high hills of Chimanimani. The Makuni of Zambia. Monomotapa's heirs. "This deadly thing". The Luba-lunda and the Zairian pogroms. The crocodile man. Among the lions. Ngorongoro and Serengeti. Among the Maasai -- The land of Zanj and the birth of the Swahili : The sharks of Mogadishu. Lamu and Shela. Mombasa. Zanzibar and mafia. Dar es Salaam and the Tanzanian Littoral. Kilwa Kisiwani, the royal city. Golden Sofala -- Towards Azania : The view from Thaba Bosiu. Azania. Sobhuza's heirs. The Kalahari. The thirstland and the Skeleton Coast -- Kongo : The ManiKongo kings and the dark queen of the Mbundu. The Congo River. Loango. Bangui. Gabon. Equatorial Guinea. São Tomé and Príncipe. Cameroon -- The Gulf of Guinea : The rain forests of Cameroon. The little kingdoms. Ife, Oyo, and Benin. Dahomey. The Ashanti. The Ivory coast. Slavery's stepchildren: Liberia and Sierra Leone |
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The Sahel: the golden empires of the sun : Old Ghana. The kingdom of Mali. Songhai. Kanem-Bornu. The Tuareg and Timbuktu. The Fulani. The Hausa kingdoms. Colonial Sahel. The Dogon -- The Maghreb and the Barbary Coast : The old Maghreb. Morocco. Algeria. Tunisia. Libya -- The longest river : Egypt. Meroë and Kush. Axum and Ethiopia -- The Great Rift : The Baganda kings. The mountains of the moon. Rwanda and Burundi. The Kenya Highlands. The world according to moi. Olduvai and Lucy's kin. |
| Subject |
Africa -- Description and travel.
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Africa -- Civilization.
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De Villiers, Marq -- Travel -- Africa.
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| Added Author |
Hirtle, Sheila.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: De Villiers, Marq. Into Africa. Toronto : Key Porter Books, c1997 (OCoLC)605369628 |
| ISBN |
1550138847 |
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9781550138849 |
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