Since the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Africa. The volume emphasize…
Since the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Africa. The volume emphasize…
Since the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Africa. The volume emphasize…
Kaarta was a pre-colonial state in present-day western Mali covering approximately fifty thousand square kilometres at its maximum extent, under the rule of non-Muslim, Bamana-speaking Kulibali lineages during the early nineteenth century. Kaarta, originally a small region of Ka…
Fuuta Jalon (also Fuuta Jaloo, and Fouta Djallon in French) is a mountainous region of west-central Guinea where Fulfulde-speaking Muslims (known also as Fula, Fulani, and Peul) established a state that dominated the region from the early twelfth/eighteenth century until its inc…
Fulbe (sing. Pullo) is an ethnonym of a widely dispersed group of West Africans, also known as Fula, Fulani, Peul, Fellata, and Fulfulde is the language of the Fulbe, known in the western Sahel as Pular. Fulfulde/Pular is a member of the West Atlantic group of the Niger-Congo la…