Africa's Past, Our Future.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Longue Durée -- 1 Humanity's African Origins -- 2 Early Subsistence: Gathering-Hunting and Agriculture -- 3 Early Adaptation: Climate Change and Pastoralism -- 4 New Ideas and Tradition -- Part II. African Institutions in the Middle Time Frame -- 5 Forms of Political Authority: Heterarchy -- 6 Forms of Social Organization: Matriliny -- 7 Forms of Economic Thought: Wealth in People and the Entrustment Economy -- Part III. Recent History and Politics -- 8 African Views on Colonialism and Development Assistance (with Heidi Frontani) -- 9 African Contributions: Economics, Politics, and Society (with Heidi Frontani) -- 10 An African Success Story: Somaliland -- Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.

Introducing readers to the wide variety of sources from which African history is constructed, the book's ten chapters cover human evolution, the domestication of plants and animals, climate change, social organization, the slave trade and colonization, development, and contemporary economics and politics.

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