Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century (UNESCO Vol V) | Bethwell A. Ogot, General Histo

Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century is Volume V of the UNESCO General History of Africa, edited by Bethwell A. Ogot. This comprehensive historical work charts Africas evolution during a pivotal era from internal state and cultural transformations to intensified contact with the rest of the world through trade and the growing transAtlantic slave trade. It explores a wide variety of regions (North, West, East, Southern Africa), the impact of Islam and Christianity, population movements, political reconfigurations, and how external trade reshaped economies and societies. 

Key Topics Covered:

• Internal political, economic and social structures in Africa between 15001800 

• Population movements and emergence of new sociopolitical forms 

• The export slave trade and how external trade networks influenced Africa and the wider Atlantic economy 

• Islams ascendancy, the Ottoman expansion (especially in North Africa), and how religion, culture, and external influence interacted 

• Regional histories: West African coast states, the Horn, the Great Lakes, Kongo, Luba/Lunda, Southern Africa etc. 

Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, UNESCO General History of Africa Vol V, Bethwell A. Ogot, African history, 15001800, slave trade, precolonial states, trade networks, political economy, regional African history, hardcover, academic history