Table of Contents

Part I: Pharaonic EgyptChapter 1: The Old KingdomChapter 2: First Intermediate PeriodChapter 3: The Middle KingdomChapter 4: The Second Intermediate PeriodChapter 5: New KingdomChapter 6: Queen HatshepsutChapter 7: Scribes: Instructions to Vizier Rekh-mi-RaChapter 8: Anonymous: Love PoemsChapter 9; Amenhotep III: The Great Hymn to AmenChapter 10: Amenemope: Proverbs from the Wisdom BooksChapter 11: Pharoah Akhenaten and Queen NefertitiPart II: Ancient NubiaChapter 12: General PiankhiChapter 13: Pharaoh ShabakaChapter 14: Pharaoh TaharqaChapter 15: Pharaoh MentemhetChapter 16: The Priests of MeroePart III: Hellenized Egypt and NubiaChapter 17: Heron of AlexandriaChapter 18: ValentinusChapter 19: The GnosticsChapter 20: The HermetistsChapter 21: OrigenChapter 22: PlotinusChapter 25: Synesius of Cyrene (Libya)Chapter 26: PaphnutiusChapter 27: Coptic ApocryphaPart IV: Byzantine and Romanized Carthage-NumidiaChapter 28: TertullianChapter 29: PerpetuaChapter 30: CyprianChapter 31: AugustineChapter 32: CorippusPart V: Byzantine, Coptic and Islamic North AfricaChapter 33: Dhu Al-Nun of NubiaChapter 34: Sawirus Ibn Al-MukaffaChapter 35: Ahman Ibn Yusuf Al-MisriChapter 36: Ibn TumartChapter 37: Mamelukes of EgyptChapter 38: Ibn BattutaChapter 39: Ibn KhaldunChapter 40: The Arabized BerbersChapter 41: Leo AfricanusChapter 42: Ahmad Al-TijaniChapter 43: The MahdiPart VI: Ethiopia and SomaliaChapter 44: King EzanaChapter 45: IssacChapter 46: Shihab Al-DinChapter 47: Royal Chronicler: The Conquest of EthiopiaChapter 48: Royal Chronicler: The Empress Berham MogasaChapter 49: BahreyChapter 50: Afawerk Gabre YesusChapter 51: Qamaan BulxanChapter 52: Mahammed `Abdille HasaChapter 53: The Ethiopian Public Health BureauPart VII: West AfricaChapter 54: Ancient MaliChapter 55: Mahmud Al-Kati of SonghayChapter 56: Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sadi of SonghayChapter 57: Queens Amina of ZazzauChapter 58: Hausland: Matters of StateChapter 59: Uthman Dan FodioChapter 60: Abdullah Dan FodioChapter 61: Al-Kanemi/BelloChapter 62: Samuel Anla Ogun JohnsonChapter 63: The Yoruba of NigeriaChapter 64: The Ibo of Southeastern NigeriaChapter 65: The Ashanti of GhanaChapter 66:Thomas C. Brownell of LiberiaPart VIII: Central AfricaChapter 67: Afonso of KongoChapter 68: The Ovimbundu of AngolaChapter 69: The Luba of ZaireChapter 70: The Yaka of Southwestern ZaireChapter 71: The Nyanga and the Pygmies of GabonChapter 72: The Fang of Gabon and CameroonPart IX: East AfricaChapter 73: The Dinka of Southern SudanChapter 74: John NyakaturaChapter 75: The Buganda of UgandaChapter 76: The Bahima of Ankole (Uganda)Chapter 77: Chronicler: The Arrival of Vasco da GamaChapter 78: Chronicler: Intrigues from the Pate ChroniclesChapter 79: Abdallah Idn NasirChapter 80: Mwana KuponaChapter 81: The Masai of KenyaChapter 82: The Kikuyu of KenyaChapter 83: King Macemba of the Yao-TanzaniaChapter 84: The Shambaa of TanzaniaChapter 85: The Kamba of Kenya and TanzaniaPart X: Southern AfricaChapter 86: The Shona of ZimbabweChapter 87: The Zulu of South AfricaChapter 88: The Xhosa of South AfricaChapter 89: William W. GqobaChapter 90: LesothoChapter 91: BotswanaChapter 92: The Kung of Nambia

About the Author

Constance Hilliard received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in the areas of African History and Semitic Historiography. She is spending 1997/1998 at Wellesley College as a Visiting Professor. Ms. Hilliard rejoined academia after serving for several years as a foreign policy staff analyst for the U.S. Senate and as a columnist for the Dallas Morning News. She is Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas.