This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of some four or fiv

Innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period.

Originally published in 1976, this book combines detailed technical studies of the diplomacy of the land and waterborne warfare of pre-colonial West Africa. It

Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires.