Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is African history? / John Edward Philips
  • Archaeology and the reconstruction of the African past / Susan Keech McIntosh
  • Writing African history from linguistic evidence / Christopher Ehret
  • Physical anthropology and African history / Shomarka Keita
  • The importance of botanical data to historical research on Africa / Dorothea Bedigian
  • Oral tradition as a means of reconstructing the past / David Henige
  • Oral sources and the challenge of African history / Barbara M. Cooper
  • Arabic sources for African history / John Hunwick
  • European documents and African history / John Thornton
  • Mission and colonial documents / Toyin Falola
  • Data collection and interpretation in the social history of Africa / Isaac Olawale Albert
  • African economic history : approaches to research / Masao Yoshida
  • Signs of time, shapes of thought : the contributions of art history and visual culture to historical methods in Africa / Henry John Drewal
  • Methodologies in Yorùbá oral historiography and aesthetics / Diedre Bádéjo
  • Local history in post-independent Africa / Bala Achi
  • Africa and world-systems analysis : a post-nationalist project? / William G. Martin
  • "What Africa has given America" : African continuities in the North American diaspora / Joseph E. Holloway
  • History and memory / Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu
  • Writing about women : approaches to a gendered perspective in African history / Kathleen Sheldon
  • Writing African history / John Edward Philips.