01347nam a22001457a 4500008004100000020001500041050001400056100002000070245005400090260004400144300003500188500002000223505093700243650002101180140911b        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0582645026  aDT475.B63  aBoahen, A. Adu.  aTopics in west African history. /cA. Adu Boahen.  aLondon :bLongman Group Limited,c1966.  aviii, 174 p. :bill. ;c19 cm.  aIncludes index.  aContents: Section I: The Sudanese states and empires: A portrait of Ancient Ghana -- Islam and the fall of Ghana -- The Rise of Mali -- Mansa Musa  of Mali -- The Reign of Sunni  Ali of Songhai -- The Fall Of the Empire of Songhai -- The Hausa states and the Fulani Jihad -- Section II: The states and kingdoms of the forest and Guinea Coast: The States of the Volta basin The early Akan states -- The Early coastal states -- The rise of the Asante empire -- The decline of Asante -- The Kingdom of Dahomey -- The Culture and civilization of Oyo -- Oyo in the nineteenth century -- Section III: Europe and west Africa: The Coming of the Europeans -- The Atlantic Slave Trade -- The Era of Abolition and exploration -- The Humanitarians and the west coast -- The traders and the west coast -- The partition of Africa -- The colonial powers and west Africa -- The Rise of the present nation- states of west Africa for further reading.  aAfrican History.