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An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African
history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources
and methods in research, African historiography in the past two
decades has been characterized by the continued branching and
increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of
specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and
methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.
This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an
attempt to sort throughsome of the problems scholars face within
this unfolding web of sources and methods. The book is divided into
five sections, each of which begins with a short introduction by a
distinguished Africanist scholar. The first sectiondeals with
archaeological contributions to historical research. The second
section examines the methodologies involved in deciphering
historically accurate African ethnic identities from the records of
the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The third section mines old
documentary sources for new historical perspectives. The fourth
section deals with the method most often associated with African
historians, that of drawing historical data from oral tradition.
Thefifth section is devoted to essays that present innovative
sources and methods for African historical research. Together, the
essays in this cutting-edge volume represent the current state of
the art in African historical research. Toyin Falola is the Jacob
and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University
Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at
Austin. Christian Jennings is a Doctoral Candidatein History at the
University of Texas at Austin.
West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade surveys archaeological
data from Senegal to the Cameroon. It focuses on the past 500
years, a period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African
political and social systems, as well as the consequences of
European expansion, the advent of the Atlantic slave trade, and the
expansion of Islamic polities in the West African Sahel. The
geographical and topical scope of this volume draws together
archaeological syntheses of various parts of West Africa and is an
important resource for West Africanists and all researchers
interested in the indigenous response to European expansion, as
well as for those examining African continuities in the Americas.
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