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Basil Davidson, with F. K. Buah and J. F. A. Ajayi.
The Growth of African Civilisation: A History of West Africa 1000-1800; revised edition.
Published Harlow: Longman, 1975 reprint (previously issued 1967; original edn. was 1965).
ISBN 0582602432.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Commonwealth Printing Press, Hong Kong.
Size:136x214x20mm.
Page count: xvi,320pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some rubs and wear on the covers, especially at the edges and corners; the spine is a bit faded and curved, but not badly creased; at least 3 pages have some pencilled marks.

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Contents: Early times — background of history; West Africa in about AD 1000; Great trading empires of the Sudan; Western region — Empire of Ghana — Empire of Mali — Early Senegambia before 1600; Central region — Empire of Songhay — Mossi, Akan & others; Eastern region — Empire of Kanem-Bornu & Hausa states — Ibo, Yoruba, Edo & others; General economy of West Africa; Religion, arts & learning; Organisation of society; New pressures from outside; Period of great change; Benin, Oyo & Delta states; Dahomey in 17th & 18th centuries; Akwami, Asante & their neighbours; Western Guinea in 17th & 18th cc.; New states in western Sudan — Bambara & Fulani; Hausaland & Bornu in 17th & 18th cc.; 1800 & after — West Africa & the world.
Appendix: Essay questions.

Notes: occasional, at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: 78, monochrome
Maps & plans: 38
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

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