Sources of the African Past: Case Studies of Five Nineteenth-Century African Societies - Softcover

Sources of the African Past uses original sources to build case studies of five nineteenth-century African societies. The authors have selected accounts from participants and observers and from oral tradition.

David Robinson is a University Distinguished Professor of History and African Studies at Michigan State University. He has worked primarily on the recent history of francophone and Islamic West Africa, and published The Holy War of Umar Tal(oxford, 1985);with John Hanson,After the Jihad: The Reign of Ahmad al-Kabir in the Western Sudan (MSU Press, 1991), and with Jean-Louis Triaud, Le Temps de Marabouts,/i>(Paris:Karthala,1997). He was editor of the Journal of African History from 1990 through 1994, President of the African Studies Association of the United States in 1992-3, ans serves as Vice-President of the West African Research Association, based in Madison,Wisconsin and Dakar, Senegal, West Africa.