Tabla de Contenidos: “…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? …”